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Land-locked Bolivians push for Chilean terminal
18 Jul 2008
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia and his opposite number, Michelle Bachelet of Chile have opened the door to the construction of a Bolivian port on the Chilean coast, according to local sources.
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Savannah's shared terminal goes ahead
03 Aug 2008
Plans to share ownership of the Jasper Ocean Terminal site were put up for approval at the end of July.
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Tax bill threatens US west coast ports future
18 Jul 2008
A controversial revenue-generating port bill appears to be on the home stretch in the California legislative process, lacking only the final seal from state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Cartagena set for sizable traffic boost
05 Aug 2008
Colombia’s Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Cartagena (SPRC) says it expects sizable increases in cargo traffic at the Port of Cartagena.
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Metro returns to its roots
10 Aug 2008
Metro Ports has returned to the Pier 80 terminal of the Port of San Francisco to operate the omni-cargo terminal.
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Double bubble at Brazilian ports
20 Aug 2008
LLX Logística (LLXL3), logistics arm of Brazil's EBX group, plans to double the capacity of Sudeste port to 50m tonnes and Açu port to 100m tonnes by 2012, LLX chief executive Ricardo Antunes has said.
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El Salvador concession hiccup
05 Aug 2008
The concession for El Salvador's La Unión port has been delayed for 60 days following the rewriting of bidding rules, Rolando Díaz concessions manager of CEPA, national ports authority CEPA has said.
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Chile sets out future agenda
12 Aug 2008
Chile's government is to invest in maritime infrastructure to improve connectivity in the country's far south.
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Brazil's ports industry in flux
28 Aug 2008
The Brazilian Public Container Terminal Users Association (Abratec) is questioning the legality of having a private container terminal, Portonave, in the port of Navegantes, compete with the Port of Itajaí Container Terminal (Teconvi), which is a publicly owned facility.
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Green steel terminal
08 Sep 2008
Brazil's National Steel Company is to open its own private terminal in the Port of Suape, which will handle 2m tonnes of cargo annually. The facility will be uniquely self-sufficient in electricity production.
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Santos capacity boost
10 Sep 2008
Santos is to open four further container berths to boost capacity from 3m teu to 4m teu. The $515m project will involve an area of 541,000 su m and be eligible for a grant of $66.5m under Brazil's national Accelerated Investment Programme.
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North east cash injection
03 Sep 2008
The Modernisation and Revitalisation Department of Brazil's Ports Secretariat has confirmed that ports in the North East of the country are going to receive major investment to fund large modernisation projects.
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'Emergency' call in Costa Rica
27 Aug 2008
Users of the Costa Rican ports of Moín and Limón have called on the government to declare a state of national emergency for port operations.
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Payout for Manzanillo
07 Sep 2008
The Euro Oslo container vessel that crashed into Quay 3 at Colon container terminal in Manzanillo Bay in Panama has agreed to pay $10m in compensation to the Port Company.
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Peru concession typo
02 Sep 2008
The Peruvian government has reduced planned concession periods for port terminal operators from 60 years down to 30 years, blaming a typing error for the initial published figure.
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Paraguay favours roads
13 Sep 2008
Paraguay says it is evaluating investment in its river port infrastructure. However its main focus will be on upgrading road infrastructure to improve access to and from the ports.
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Buenaventura terminal
05 Sep 2008
The Colombian port of Buenaventura has begun construction of a dedicated container terminal, TCBUEN, which will occupy a 164,000 sq m area on the banks of the river Aguacate, some 2.4 kilometres from existing installations operated by SPRBUN.
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Blanca deal sealed
27 Aug 2008
A $150m contract has been signed to build a multi-purpose terminal at the Argentinian port of Bahía Blanca.
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