FUTURE.

They have several goals and challenges, the first is the protection of the surrounding ecosystem which will be operated through waste control, create new road and rail accesses that the whole country and serve to save time and streamline the entire process and finally arriving at the ports. Increased competitiveness and improved port for security to control theft and freight traffic is proposed. By 2030, Colombia will require approximately 174 additional MTA installed capacity. The main volumes of products expected to handle each coast are dry bulk, oil and coal. In addition it is expected to increase 1.6 times the amount of shipment for foreign trade. Another challenge is to meet the access channels to meet the demand of the Panama Canal expansion, and an improvement is given in social investment programs through job creation and increased living standards. Implement technological processes to achieve move as much load as quickly and safely as possible and so keep up with many other ports worldwide. Create the institutional environment to take coordinated actions that contribute to the country's competitiveness, generate information and maintain an efficient logistics service. Find more improvement strategies and make more port expansion plans to optimize all processes and meet future demand and technological and logistical advances of this century.

GENERAL CONCLUSION.

Port expansion policies are absolutely necessary for the country to have a real advancement and modernization throughout the port issue, especially in the infrastructure that the country needs an upgrade to facilitate and reduce costs throughout the process of transporting goods and can be competitive with many more countries. Through the history and evolution of port expansion policies we could see that these have been effective and have achieved thus fulfilling his own purpose and giving a grade to the country's development. Each of the above policies through its various projects have tried to put at the forefront of the best ports in the world, highlighting the importance of maritime operation in the country as it moves to 80, 5% of the foreign trade. By focusing more on the political current port expansion, we know each of their projects and objectives, highlighting specific points of our territory as Buenaventura, Cartagena, San Andres and Providencia and Gulf of Urabá, changes that will occur in these and large investments that the government has aimed to make these projects a reality. Also know the different challenges facing the country and for which appropriate policies and to help to take efficient and environmentally sustainable requirements of foreign trade and the provision of port and logistics services were made.