Paita Port Terminal

The port is a connection point with the IIRSA NORTE project that provided for the construction of an East-West multi-modal transport corridor that connects the northern coast of Peru with Brazil.

The following elements were built for the purposes of the project:

- Dredging:

The following zones were dredged in order to ensure the correct operation of the container terminal:

- Access channel to the dock for the handling of containers;

- Mooring zones on the container dock;

- A new container park;

- Landfill works.

The zone for construction of the container park was dredged to the following depths: NMBSO-5.0m to NMBSO+0.0m towards land. A 4 m deep layer of solid material was dredged and deposited in authorised backfill areas at sea.

In the container park there is moderately compacted earth and from NMBSO-25.0m there is highly altered shale rock with browny-yellow caliche and gesso intrusions of some 14 m (BH – 108 perforation).

Rockfill works were also undertaken for protection of the slopes of the backfills.

- Works for the pier:

The pier is composed of a slab with reinforced concrete beams laid on 5 sets of metallic piles with an average spacing of 4.5 m between the sets.