Propuesta de mejoramiento de la empresa sociedad portuaria terminal de contenedores de Buenaventura S.A. - T.C. BUEN S.A. con base en el acuerdo OTC (capítulo 7: obstáculos técnicos al comercio)

Abstract

As part of the growth and development of the world, the transportation sector has an important role in strengthening economies, the process of globalization and competitiveness without borders. Consequently, one of the pillars of the sector composes port logistics activity in foreign trade as vital for trade development between economies, a reality that requires countries an effort to optimize their production processes element, with the availability and accessibility of goods necessary to achieve greater competitiveness in the international context condition. Currently Colombia is in a global environment, which requires greater competitiveness in activities involving economic dynamism including port logistics which is immersed in the system network is a major axis of the global process where the country, the last ten years shows progress in the strategic export plan, which main objective is to strengthen access new markets through the negotiation of Free Trade Agreements (FTA). To take into account the above, the problem is focused on the impact the FTA in port logistics processes of the main ports of Colombia, as its trajectory can be very useful when characterizing the system processes to find the challenges facing the country. This project pursues the following purposes: The first purpose is to identify the essential elements of the International Port logistics against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the U.S.A. The second purpose is to review the requirements of the TBT Agreement (Chapter 7: TBT) for the Company Container Port Society of Buenaventura S.A. - TCBuen S.A. as trade integration policy. The third purpose is to provide a comprehensive and improvement proposal for the company Container Terminal Port Society of Buenaventura S.A. - TCBuen S.A.