Portentous ports. (Out of the Box).Panama's port of Colon colon, in anatomy colon, in anatomy: see intestine. colon, in punctuation colon, in writing: see punctuation. colon Segment that makes up most of the large intestine. retained the title of biggest container (1) Software that acts as a parent program to hold and execute a set of commands or to run other software routines. (2) A data structure that holds one or more different types of data. See metafile and OLE. port in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and the Caribbean, but business slipped in 2001. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac), the three major terminals at Colon, saw a 10% decline last year to just more than 1.2 million twenty-foot-equivalent units, or TEUs. CONTAINER KINGS--THOUSANDS OF TEUS Rank Port Country 2001 Change 1 Colon (/1) Panama 1,212 -10% 2 Santos Brazil 1,048 6% 3 Buenos Aires (/2) Argentina 1,010 -10% 4 Kingston Jamaica 983 10% 5 Puerto Cabello Venezuela 618 12% 6 Puerto Limon-Moin Costa Rica 578 -1% 7 Freeport Bahamas 570 0% 8 Veracruz Mexico 543 2% 9 Cartagena (/3) Colombia 531 40% 10 Haina D.R. 488 6% (/1) Manzanillo International Terminal, Evergreen and Panama Port (/2) includes Exolgan (/3) includes S.P.R, El Bosque, Contecar TEU = Twenty-foot equivalent units SOURCE: Eclac |
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