One of El Salvador’s greatest challenges is to have the best road connectivity in Central America. To achieve this goal, the country has invested millions of dollars to transform road connectivity, including the construction of large mega-projects to increase competitiveness and rehabilitate the main access roads and national routes with the intervention of more than 1,000 kilometers of road.
The construction of quality works to improve connectivity, logistics, trade, and tourism includes the construction of eight overpasses nationwide, which reduce traffic, especially at the entrances and exits of cities. These overpasses also benefit cargo transport and the movement of goods, as they are located near the accesses to the land borders with neighboring countries.
The modernization of the road network also includes the expansion projects of the El Litoral highway, Surf City, the Pan-American highway in the Los Chorros section, the Longitudinal del Norte highway, and works in the eastern and western zones.
El Salvador plans to become, thanks to its maritime infrastructure, a Regional Logistics Center, with great capacity for cargo mobilization and facilitation of agile and orderly procedures to boost the growth of the economy.
To enhance cargo capacity, the Government is working on the transformation and modernization of the Port of Acajutla, to improve port mobility logistics in the country’s main maritime terminal.
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El Salvador plans to become, thanks to its maritime infrastructure, a Regional Logistics Center, with great capacity for cargo mobilization and facilitation of agile and orderly procedures to boost the growth of the economy.
To enhance cargo capacity, the Government is working on the transformation and modernization of the Port of Acajutla, to improve port mobility logistics in the country’s main maritime terminal.
El Salvador strongly promotes the use of technology to lead the country towards digitization. Proof of this are the significant efforts made by the government to increase access to connectivity and reduce the digital gap in areas of education, health, economy, and various public sectors. These sectors today provide digital public services and promote the conditions for the development of electronic commerce, in a favorable business climate.
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To achieve this goal, the country has invested millions of dollars to transform road connectivity, including the construction of large mega-projects to increase competitiveness and rehabilitate the main access roads and national routes with the intervention of more than 1,000 kilometers of road.
The construction of quality works to improve connectivity, logistics, trade, and tourism includes the construction of eight overpasses nationwide, which reduce traffic, especially at the entrances and exits of cities. These overpasses also benefit cargo transport and the movement of goods, as they are located near the accesses to the land borders with neighboring countries.
The modernization of the road network also includes the expansion projects of the El Litoral highway, Surf City, the Pan-American highway in the Los Chorros section, the Longitudinal del Norte highway, and works in the eastern and western zones.
El Salvador plans to become, thanks to its maritime infrastructure, a Regional Logistics Center, with great capacity for cargo mobilization and facilitation of agile and orderly procedures to boost the growth of the economy.
To enhance cargo capacity, the Government is working on the transformation and modernization of the Port of Acajutla, to improve port mobility logistics in the country’s main maritime terminal.
El Salvador has invested $56 million in the modernization and expansion of the San Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez International Airport of El Salvador, leaping forward in the modernization of the aeronautical industry that promotes the generation of new sources of quality employment, an increase in the capacity to handle more passengers and an economic boost for the country’s economic development.
El Salvador strongly promotes the use of technology to lead the country towards digitization. Proof of this are the significant efforts made by the government to increase access to connectivity and reduce the digital gap in areas of education, health, economy, and various public sectors. These sectors today provide digital public services and promote the conditions for the development of electronic commerce, in a favorable business climate.
Google has chosen the country to be the first technology hub in Central America, offering modernization of government services, technical guidance to companies for greater benefits of cloud technology and digital infrastructure.
Telephone companies such as Millicom/ Tigo will invest between 2019 and 2024 USD 500 million in digital infrastructure, to build the first Data Center of Tigo El Salvador, develop fixed networks, and deploy 4G LTE technology.
In the last five years, Claro has invested USD $1 billion under the Expansion and Deployment Plan to expand fixed and mobile service coverage in order to provide residential and business users with better speed and guarantee better Internet service.
El Salvador is on its way to becoming a benchmark in innovation and regional trade facilitation. After several years without intervention, the country’s main border posts have been transformed and modernized.
Transit times at this border crossing point have been reduced from 1:30 to 10 minutes, as long as the means of transport presents complete documentation.
El Amatillo customs, located in the department of La Unión, has had an investment of USD $26.4 million. It has a 60,000 mt2 construction, making it the first customs precinct in the region to implement a new model of trade control and facilitation, with a Management Control System with state-of-the-art technological components.
The waiting time has been substantially reduced to 5 minutes for the means of transport to be cleared as long as it has the complete documentation.
For more information, visit the official website of Aduana El Salvador.