[Editor’s note: The ports of Limon and Moin, Costa Rica, are sites where SINTRAJAP union dockworkers have been fighting for their collective bargaining rights under the pressures of privatization by the Costa Rican government and APM Terminals.]
An eight-member U.S. Navy Fleet Survey Team (FST) began survey operations in Puerto Limon and Puerto Moin, Costa Rica Oct. 21, to collect data to update nautical charts that are more than 25 years old.
With permission from the Costa Rican port authorities and coast guard, the FST can coordinate its surveys with hydrographers from the country’s Ministry of Public Works and Transportation, and provide copies of the completed hydrographic surveys so that they can produce their own nautical charts.
The surveys aid in the safe navigation of U.S. forces and civilian vessels traversing the area.