Project Punta Paloma: a mining port in south of Arica

Due unique characteristics such as the location, the deep of the water, the near cliff with a big area for storage, etc. Punta Paloma has been historically considered as the best location for the future port of Arica.

Many projects has been made considering Punta Paloma as port for soja beam from Matto Grosso, for natural gas and minerals from Bolivia, however none of then has concreted and the area is currently unattended.

Punta Paloma have several advantages compared with the Port of Arica:

Deep sea to allow the docking of bigger vessels

Fast access for continuous transit of trucks, no bottleneck

No enviromental problems with the storage

Less risk in natural disasters such as eartquakes or tsunamis

No problem with labor union

No structural problems as Puerto de Arica has

No space restriction as Puerto de Arica has

The project consist in an storage area in the heigths of the cliff, then the ore is dropped by gravity to the dock located at 120 meters away the coastline

This allow a very fast operation for imbark the ore to the vessel and a quick transit of the trucks

The railroad from La Paz to Arica and the international road enter to the city trough the Lluta Valley, the ore may be transferred from railroad to truck at Lluta Valley and then surrounding the city trough the bypass highway enter to Punta Paloma heigths

In the Lluta Valley, near the railroad there are facilities actually unused wich may serve as transference stations

Then the loaded trucks can use the four lane road to enter to the city

Using the bypass highway there are no need to enter to the city, avoiding traffic bottleneck

Then entering to the hill trough a non paved road

Out of the city and normal traffic

To finally download at Punta Paloma heigths

2006-06-27T04:57:04