{"id":3039,"date":"2007-05-01T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2007\/05\/01\/ictsi-granted-guayaquil-concession\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:27:45","slug":"ictsi-granted-guayaquil-concession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2007\/05\/01\/ictsi-granted-guayaquil-concession\/","title":{"rendered":"ICTSI granted Guayaquil concession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the local sources, ICTSI offered to pay the port authoirty, APG, US$10.43 per container handled, well over the US$6 amount set in the bidding rules.The operator is expected to take control of the port in three to four months.<\/p>\n<p>ICTSI, in a strategic alliance with Singapore&#8217;s PSA, was the only entity to submit an offer for the port&#8217;s concession last December after a second consortium &#8211; formed by local company Transagent, Chilean companies Inversores Cosmos and Empresas Navieras and German firm HHLA Container Terminal &#8211; decided to withdraw from the process, blaming a lack of transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICTSI has been granted a 20-year concession to manage the Ecuadorian port of Guayaquil. Its initial priority will be to reinforce existing quaysides at a cost of around $168m, taking two years to implement. Total investment across the 20 years of the concession will be around $800m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}