# La Union (SVLUN)

**UN/LOCODE:** SVLUN  
**Country:** El Salvador  
**Water Body:** North Pacific Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Very Small  
**Harbor Type:** Coastal (Natural)  
**GPS:** 13.3333, -87.8333

Just 95 ship calls between 2014 and 2017, and only 21 vessels carrying about 23,000 TEU in 2019, tell the story of La Unión (UN/LOCODE SV LUN), also known as Cutuco, on El Salvador's Gulf of Fonseca coast. Opened in 2010 as a multi-purpose terminal built for Panamax and Post-Panamax container ships, with quay depths of around 14 metres, the port has remained chronically under-used. The main obstacle is the costly maintenance dredging of its access channel, estimated at some 13 million m³; a Japanese JICA study explored reactivation options in 2019. Road links along the Pan-American Highway connect it to eastern El Salvador, and the port is positioned within a planned logistics corridor. For now, most Salvadoran container traffic still moves through Acajutla, with Puerto Quetzal (Guatemala) and Corinto (Nicaragua) as regional alternatives.

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