Chile’s San Antonio Outer Port expansion – just in time

ID 94852 © Elena Ray | Dreamstime.com One defining feature of the history of containerisation has been the way it has led to the death of many inner-city working ports. The latest example is on the west coast of South America, where authorities in Chile recently gave the go-ahead for the port of San Antonio to embark on its highly ambitious $4.45bn outer port development (El Puerto Exterior), in what promises to be the country’s largest ever port development – with a new breakwater stretching 4km built to ...