Historia Logistica

The twentieth century was the point of departure gives the modernization of the infrastructure and logistics in Colombia, the first decades of this century caron framed textile birth, hydroelectric,beer and cement. In regional terms there is a boom in the economy of the Atlantic Coast, where the United Fruit Company focuses its operations, the coffee maintains its level of coffee production,while in the Valle del Cauca sugar begins to stake out its economy, river and sea ports had their boom to become the main route from the center of the country to its shores, the river Magdalena reached1'500 transporting 000 tonnes in 1929.

U.S. investment in Colombia increased during this decade, increased employment and the domestic market, the price of coffee boomed in the decade of the 20s,made catapult Medellín as the industrial capital. Moreover, the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 gave great importance to the Pacific, precipitating the modernization of the port of Buenaventura andthe creation of the railway between Cali and Buenaventura.

With the arrival of the first car was created via automobile, which took the name of Central Road. With the money from the com-pensationfor the loss of Panama under President Pedro Nel Ospina, the rail network is strengthened and modernized ports of Cartagena and Buenaventura. Despite the railway boom, these projects would fail overtime due largely to lack of planning, as the rail gauges were never fixed so that the works could not be joined, by 1930 per km of railway lines were built two roads, since then the country's roadinfrastructure and fires were built around 1950 and 850 miles per year, for those years Colombia had the western trunk and main trunk.


The first decades of the twentieth century are also remembered bythe advent of aviation and the oil majors, the aircraft began to soar by 1919 Colombians and by 1930 there were already four airports, (that of Bogota, Medellin, Cali and Barranquilla) turn the air...