Barranquilla integrates port logistics

Atlántico’s government has started a new freight corridor outside Barranquilla to connect the city’s port zone, airport and industrial routes. (atlantico.gov.co) Governor Eduardo Verano launched the Corredor Logístico del Atlántico on February 12, 2025, centered on the Vía Caracolí between La Cordialidad and the Vía Oriental in Malambo. The project covers 17.4 kilometers in two sections. (atlantico.gov.co) The department budgeted 138.432 billion Colombian pesos for the job and said the road is being designed for heavy cargo traffic. Officials said the corridor should improve travel times and freight flow for companies moving goods through the area. (atlantico.gov.co) That road push is lining up with a separate airport overhaul. On April 22-24, 2026, the National Infrastructure Agency and Colombia’s civil aviation authority held technical meetings on modernizing Ernesto Cortissoz airport in Barranquilla. (ani.gov.co) Those meetings covered the airport master plan, future passenger and cargo forecasts, and upgrades to the cargo terminal. The agency said the private “Puerta de Oro” initiative now in factibility stage carries an estimated 3.1 trillion-peso investment. (ani.gov.co) Barranquilla’s pitch is that the pieces already sit close together: seaport terminals on the Magdalena River, Ernesto Cortissoz airport, and road links into Colombia’s Caribbean and interior markets. ProBarranquilla describes the city as a multimodal platform with maritime, river, air and land connections. (probarranquilla.org) (puertodebarranquilla.com) The port zone says it has seven public-use terminals and more than 13 shipping lines with weekly services across the Caribbean and the Americas. ProBarranquilla says the wider area now markets 5-to-8-day maritime transit to the U.S. East Coast and more than 189 weekly domestic air frequencies. (puertodebarranquilla.com) (probarranquilla.org) The airport is also handling more traffic than earlier projections envisioned. ANI said Ernesto Cortissoz moved more than 3 million passengers in 2025 and posted cargo growth of more than 20,000 tons. (ani.gov.co) Colombia’s infrastructure policy is also leaning harder toward intermodal freight links. The U.S. Commerce Department’s 2026 country guide said the government’s current pipeline is aimed at reducing logistics times and tying roads, rail and ports together. (trade.gov) For Barranquilla, the story is less about a single ribbon-cutting than about stitching together road, port and airport capacity into one cargo map. The corridor is under construction, the airport plan is still being structured, and local officials are selling both as one logistics platform. (atlantico.gov.co) (ani.gov.co)