PORTS I

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The objectives of the project are to provide high priority installations and equipment, mainly in the ports of Tampico, Veracruz, Guaymas, Mazatlan and Manzanillo and to improve country-wide port planning, administration and operation. The project consists of: (i) a grain-handling installation at Veracruz and consequent resiting of tanker berths; (ii) two self-propelled dredgers and other dredging equipment; (iii) warehouses at Veracruz, Tampico and Manzanillo and a transit shed at Veracruz; (iv) fire-fighting and port communications equipment; (v) mobile cargo-handling equipment; (vi) consultants' services for: (a) operations and accounting; (b) a national port development study including feasibility studies; and (c) dredging organization and equipment; and (vii) staff training.