Profile: Capt Alfonso Salas Trujillo

Alfonso Salas: Coming through a crisis

Perhaps more than any other person in Colombia during the last 25 years, Capt Alfonso Salas Trujillo has been responsible for transforming the nation’s port sector and, in particular, the fortunes of the Port of Cartagena. Now, during challenges times for many organizations, Capt Salas offers his thoughts to Caribbean Maritime as he looks optimistically to a bright post-Covid-19 future for the Port of Cartagena – not only for its container operations, but also for its currently troubled cruise business.

Q. Where were you born and where did you grow up?

A. I grew up in Neiva, Colombia, the capital of the Department of Huila. A mid-size city located in southwestern Colombia.

Q. Where did you go to school and then to university? In which subject(s) did you graduate? 

A. I went to the Colombia Naval Academy in Cartagena, where I earned a degree in Naval Engineering, afterwards I went to the US Naval Academy in Monterrey California, where I studied Electrical Engineering.

Q. What was your first job upon leaving university? 

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