Latin American public and private ports and terminals, mainly private ones, due to the lack of an adequate scene to deal topics related to its reality and fast development jointly, felt the necessity of creating an owned association which spread them to world without any exclusion.
Therefore, under the leadership of so important Countries like Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, the decision was to create Latin American Ports and Terminals Association, Latinports, with a Head office in Bogotá, Colombia, which was legally incorporated on August 28th, 2009 with 15 members.