The shipping platform

Location: Veracruz is situated on the Gulf coast of Mexico in the Bay of Campeche. General overview: Veracruz is the principal port on the Gulf coast, providing excellent well sheltered berths and handling a variety of cargoes such as general, bulk, containers, vehicles and liquid cargoes. There is over 4,500m of berthing space. The port is linked by train and road to the most important areas in the country in terms of commercial and industrial activity, these include the states of Puebla, Tlaxcala, Mexico and the metropolitan area of Mexico City. Traffic figures: Approx 1,600 vessels, 16,00,000t of cargo and 560,000TEU handled annually. Load line zone: Summer. Max size: LOA 300m, 80,000DWT. Cruise vessels: LOA 310m, draught 12.0m. Largest vessel handled: "MSC Barbara" 73,819GT, LOA 304m.