ARTICLE 16: TYPES OF MARITIME TRAFFIC
Maritime traffic can be at high-altitude, cabotage or mixed.
It is understood by high-altitude traffic:
The transport of Merchandise that arrive in the country or are sent abroad, and
Navigation between a national port and a foreign port or vice versa;
Marine traffic is understood as cabotage, freight transport or navigation between two points of the country located on the same coast, and
Mixed maritime traffic is understood as:
When a vessel simultaneously performs of the high-altitude and cabotage with the Merchandise it transports, and
The transport of merchandise or the navigation between two points of the national coast located in different coast or, in the same, if a stop is made in a foreign port. (LA: Art. 11) (LA: Art. 20)