Barranquilla is, given its competitive and comparative advantages, the epicenter of the internalization of the economy. The city favored by its river, maritime, and harbor vocation, with extensive facilities in matter of communications, offers a various commerce that permits the visitors to acquire articles of all the ranges. Is one of the cities with greater strategic value as platform toward the markets of the Caribbean sea Mexico, United States and other countries of America. Its harbor zone is connected with more than a hundred ports of importance on a worldwide basis. Its modern infrastructure offers to the exporters and importers an area of a lot more extensive storage and less costly than that of the neighboring ports. Barranquilla is headquarters of important factories of beverages, products agricolas, metalurgia, and substances quimicas for the industry
ZONE FRANCO
The Duty free Industrial and Commercial of Barranquilla, is a public establishment of national order, with legal legal status, administrative autonomy and adhering, own patrimony al Department of Economic Development. The Zone Franco Industrial and Commercial of Barranquilla, is a public establishment of national order, with legal legal status, administrative autonomy and adhering, own patrimony al Department of Economic Development. It considers object to promote the foreign trade, to generate employment, currencies and to serve of industrial development area. It was created by means of the law 105 of Colombia, which a great experience in the installment of its services accredits him, as also offers extensive facilities of infrastructure for the export industries location. It has an area of a million square meters, where 6.000 direct jobs in the forty industries installed they are generated, thirty commercial businesses, seven businesses of services and two administrative areas
HARBOR COMPANY
The Regional Harbor Company of Barranquilla INC. - S.P.R.B.-, is a business of mixed economy that administers, operates and markets the River and Maritime Terminal of the city of Barranquilla since December 13 in concession by the Nation.