Latin American Economy & Business - July 2017 (ISSN 1741-7430)

The throughput of containerised cargo in the ports of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) fell by 0.9% in 2016, according to a report released on 6 June by the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). ECLAC said that this regional average continued a “negative trend of deceleration” observed in the previous few years and, problematically, was the biggest loss since the 2009 crisis.