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Municipality. San José. Puerto Quetzal is Guatemala 's largest Pacific Ocean port. It is important for both cargo traffic and as a stop-off point for cruise liners. [1] It is located in Escuintla department, alongside the city of Puerto San José, which it superseded as a port in importance to the country's maritime traffic during the 20th ...
Otto Pérez Molina was elected president in the 2011 general elections and shortly after his inauguration privatized the Empresa Portuaria Quetzal (English:Quetzal Harbor Enterprise) in Escuintla, on Holy Wednesday of the first Holy Week under his tenure; the Holy Week is a highly respected holiday in Guatemala and his move prompted several ...
Died. January 15, 2007 (aged 42–43) Guatemala. Occupation. Trade unionist. Pedro Zamora Álvarez (1964 – 15 January 2007) was a Guatemalan trade unionist. [1] At the time of his death, he was the general secretary of the Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Empresa Portuaria Quetzal (the Puerto Quetzal Dockers' Union, or STEPQ, an affiliate of ...
Santo Tomás de Castilla. Santo Tomás de Castilla, officially known as Mátías de Gálvez though it popularly retains its former name, [1] is a port city in the Izabal Department, Guatemala. It lies at Amatique Bay off the Gulf of Honduras and is administratively a part of Puerto Barrios.
Puerto San José. Puerto San José is a town on Guatemala 's Pacific Ocean coast, in the department of Escuintla. It has a population of 23,887 (2018 census), [1] making it the largest town along the Pacific coast of Guatemala. It was the Pacific port for Guatemala, but this was superseded in the 20th century by Puerto Quetzal, four kilometres ...
Quetzaltenango (Spanish pronunciation: [ketsalteˈnaŋɡo], also known by its Maya name Xelajú [ʃelaˈχu] or Xela [ˈʃela]) is both the seat of the namesake Department and municipality, in Guatemala. The city is located in a mountain valley at an elevation of 2,330 meters (7,640 feet) above sea level at its lowest part.
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896.In 2017 the ITF had 677 member organizations in 149 countries, representing a combined membership of 19.7 million transport workers [1] in all industrial transport sectors: civil aviation, dockers, inland navigation, seafarers, road transport ...
San José Airport (Guatemala) San José Airport (IATA: GSJ, ICAO: MGSJ) (Aeropuerto de Puerto San José, Escuintla) serves the city of Puerto San José, the resort town of Monterrico, the port of Puerto Quetzal and the eastern Guatemalan Pacific coast. It is operated and administrated by DGAC - Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil de Guatemala.