San Lorenzo Megaport Project

The San Lorenzo Megaport Project is a proposed plan to build a huge air, naval, and terrestrial port on the island of San Lorenzo in Callao, Peru using land reclamation techniques.

It also has easy access to the Atlantic by a proposed railway to connect it to the Amazon River which is only 700 miles away through Pucallpa.

It would be linked to the mainland by a proposed four kilometer long underwater tunnel with access for subway, freight trains, and automobiles.

As of 2022 the project had been dropped by a transitional government, then a modified and expanded version, but without a port, was proposed by a company.

From the terrestrial port hundreds of freight trains every day will originate to be transported cross-country to the city of Pucallpa where they will be shipped via the Amazon River to the Atlantic.

From the port it will go through the tunnel under the ocean and keep going underground for 15 kilometers until it leaves the Lima Metropolitan Area at around Lurigancho.

The Peruvian aviation industry has been historically one of the strongest in Latin America but is currently in a large downwards movement.

Investors predict this project would be enough to give a large enough boost to send it back into its former glory.

When they are ready to be loaded onto the ships they would be elevated to the port and lighting would rely on fiber-optic technology.

It is safe to say that the financial center of the island will rival that of Downtown Callao The tunnel will have three parts.

Over several years nothing was done, and the project was essentially abandoned by a transition government, in favour of improving Callao Port with foreign investment.