Manzanillo port back to normal ops after Hurricane Patricia

Mexico’s port of Manzanillo, where the 500,000 Mc/d LNG import terminal is located, said it has returned to normal operations after Hurricane Patricia hit the country’s Pacific coast over the weekend.

“The port of Manzanillo is coordinated and operating at 100 percent in all areas,” it said in a statement on Sunday.

The Port Authority (API) said it conducted an assessment of port conditions after the hurricane swept through the port reporting “no major damage or risk situations“.

According to the U.S. National Weather Service, “Patricia” is the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the eastern Pacific or Atlantic Ocean.

The maximum winds were estimated to be 165 mph – a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, the NWS said.

The US$900 million Manzanillo LNG terminal, located within the port in Colima state, consists of two 150,000 cbm storage tanks and has a send-out capacity of 3.8 million tons per year.

It is owned by a consortium of Samsung C&T and Mitsui, each with a stake of 37.5 percent, and Kogas, with 25 percent.

LNG World News Staff; Image: The U.S. National Weather Service