The construction of the most expected new Caldera Dock in Puntarenas, Costa Rica will continue to be paralyzed; so far it has been for 19 months already due to issues with the Estate of Costa Rica itself and during all this time the costs of the construction have increased tremendously, so far it is estimated that the increase is for over $29 million dollars and the Sociedad Granelera de Caldera has already admitted that they cannot afford this huge increase. Puertos de Caldera y Limon, Costa Rica

 

The main legal issue that has delayed the construction of the bridge it’s a sue placed by the Asociación Nacional de Empleados Públicos (ANEP) claiming that the construction of the dock will compromise the right inhabitants of the are have to enjoy and healthy and ecologically balanced environment. The reason why this legal sue has taken so long to be taken care of is apparently an overload of work on the Sala IV which handles these types of issues. Costa Rica has a big trouble if the delay continues since money is being lost while the court can’t even look at the file itself. The Caldera dock needed to be not only rebuilt but remodeled since a huge percentage of exports in Costa Rica use this route.

 

So far, there are no resolutions and just the excuse of the overloaded Sala IV. Puntaremas will continue to use the old dock for every transaction, departure and arrival in the Pacific side of Costa Rica for the moment. The other main dock in Costa Rica is
Puerto Limon which receives visitors, works with exports and imports and handles most of the Caribbean side economic trades and apparently is handling everything perfectly for the moment. The Costa Rica government still has not made comments on the issue so far.