Terminal Muelle Mecanizado Esperanza
In January–July 2026, US$ 1,515 million of exports were loaded at Terminal Muelle Mecanizado Esperanza, 1.9% of everything Chile exported, 28% more than in the same months of 2025. What is loaded most is «Copper ores and concentrates» (100%), and the main destination is China (62%).
Servicio Nacional de Aduanas · How it is measured
Month by month
January 2025–August 2026«s/d» is a month the Aduanas database does not carry, not a month without trade.
What passes through
January–July 2026What is loaded (exports)
- Copper ores and concentratesUS$ 1,515 million100%
- Combustibles, lubricantes, aparejos y demás mercancías, incluidas las provision…US$ 328 thousand<0.1%
Each rectangle is a chapter of the Arancel; its area is what passed through here, its colour the family of goods. Below, the largest headings. Click one to go to its page, which says through which ports it leaves and lands across Chile.
With which countries
January–July 2026Each line joins the start and a country this was sold to; it is a relationship, not a route. The other countries, pooled, and the codes that are not a country (free zones, ship stores) add up to US$ 328 thousand and have no line.
From which region
exports · January–July 2026- AntofagastaUS$ 1,473 million97%
- MetropolitanaUS$ 41.6 million2.7%
- TarapacáUS$ 4 thousand<0.1%
- ValparaísoUS$ 2 thousand<0.1%
The region the export declaration names as the origin of what was loaded here. A port serves regions other than its own.
Who processes it and how it travels
January–July 2026| Customs office | Region of its seat | Exports | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antofagasta | Antofagasta | US$ 1,515 million | 100% |
The port is where the cargo passes; the office is the one that processed the declaration, and it may be another.
Exports, by transport
- Sea, river and lakeUS$ 1,515 million100%
From where to where
January–July 2026What leaves: region of origin, family of goods, destination
Every column adds up to the same total; the largest are named and the rest pooled into «others». An import declares no Chilean region: it is counted at the office that clears it.
Other ports of Antofagasta
January–July 2026| Port or crossing | Comuna | Loaded (exports) | % | Unloaded (imports) | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Angamos | Mejillones | US$ 14,998 million | 47% | US$ 2,638 million | 42% |
| Caleta Coloso | Antofagasta | US$ 8,441 million | 26% | — | — |
| Antofagasta | Antofagasta | US$ 4,252 million | 13% | US$ 1,018 million | 16% |
| Mejillones | Mejillones | US$ 1,099 million | 3.4% | US$ 1,948 million | 31% |
| Terminal Graneles del Norte | Mejillones | US$ 2,573 million | 8.1% | US$ 124 million | 2.0% |
| Tocopilla | Tocopilla | US$ 393 million | 1.2% | — | — |
| Paso Jama | San Pedro de Atacama | US$ 52.5 million | 0.2% | US$ 141 million | 2.2% |
| Aeropuerto Cerro Moreno | Antofagasta | US$ 1.8 million | <0.1% | US$ 165 million | 2.6% |
| Terminal Marítimo ENAEX | Mejillones | — | — | US$ 163 million | 2.6% |
| Ollague | Ollagüe | US$ 97.3 million | 0.3% | US$ 4.3 million | 0.1% |
| Terminal Portuario Terquim | Mejillones | US$ 6 thousand | <0.1% | US$ 56.2 million | 0.9% |
| Terminal Marítimo Oxiquim | Mejillones | — | — | US$ 25.7 million | 0.4% |
| San Pedro de Atacama | San Pedro de Atacama | US$ 2.6 million | <0.1% | US$ 61 thousand | <0.1% |
| Aeródromo El Loa | Calama | US$ 37 thousand | <0.1% | — | — |
How it is measured
- Where the figures come from
- Every export and import declaration the Servicio Nacional de Aduanas processed since January 2025, added up as Aduanas publishes them in its open databases. Nothing is estimated. They are amounts of trade, not PuroChile indicators, and they are never divided by census figures.
- FOB and CIF
- Exports are valued FOB («free on board»): what the goods are worth loaded on the ship, plane or truck that takes them out of Chile. Imports are valued CIF («cost, insurance and freight»): what they are worth on arrival in Chile, with insurance and freight paid. That is how Aduanas publishes them. So «exports less imports» is not the Central Bank's trade balance, which values imports without insurance or freight.
- Which months
- The figures at the top add up January–July 2026: the months of this year both databases already carry, against the same months of 2025. Aduanas replaces the running year's database every month, so this year's months can still be corrected. «s/d» on a chart is a month the database does not carry — not a month without trade.
- Changes
- A change is shown only where the same months of the year before added up to at least US$ 1.0 million.
- Port and customs office
- The port is where the cargo physically passes: loaded for an export, unloaded for an import. The customs office is the branch of the Service that processes the declaration. They are not always the same place: the Aduana de Antofagasta processes what is loaded at Mejillones.
- What is not here
- Customs agents: every declaration names the agent who filed it, but Aduanas's open databases leave that field out, and PuroChile does not estimate it.
- The ports
- The ports, airports and crossings are those of Anexo 51-11 of the Compendio de Normas Aduaneras, with their code (821 is this one's). Aduanas publishes no location: PuroChile places a port in its comuna, not on its quay.
- Tonnage
- Tonnage is the gross weight the export declarations state. The imports database carries no weight, so there is no unloaded tonnage.
- A month at zero
- A month with no bar is one in which nothing was declared through this port; «s/d» is one the database does not carry.
Source: Servicio Nacional de Aduanas · How each figure is checked →