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offshore oil exploration and development, a new container terminal, general cargo, bulk and refrigerated handling and storage facilities as well as a
Special Economic Development Zone for light manufacturing and storage. The new Mariel Port can handle deeper vessels than Havana Bay, where a tunnel under the channel restricts depths to 11 metres (36 feet). The Mariel container terminal would have an annual capacity of 850,000 to 1 million containers, compared with Havana's 350,000. These developments should enable Mariel to accommodate the very large container ships which will transit from Asia through the Panama Canal once the enlargement of the latter is completed in the summer of 2014.
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built a new port, including a major container terminal, in partnership with the Cuban company "Zona de
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