North America

A new mega-port complex is taking shape at Aç u to the north of Rio de Janeiro, which is being bankrolled by Brazils state investment bank BNDES and by the privately owned…

Guaymas port has announced a tender to establish, equip, operate and run a container terminal for public use in its port. With an approximate area of 52,720 m2, Guaymas is targeting companies…

The Port of Baltimore is to benefit from a $3.5m grant from US Recovery Act funds to help clean the air in and around the Port. The port will use the funds…

The Brazilian government has suspended proposed port fee hikes for this year; instead, existing 2008 rates will apply until the end of the year. It justified the move by citing the need…

The part of Babcock & Brown that, among other interests, owns ICS Logistics, a leading operator of break bulk sea ports in Florida, Louisiana and Alabama, may have found a way out…

A Hidden Island in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, could be turned into Brazils newest container terminal, if a plan from the Rio de janeiro state govenment goes ahead.

Although traffic at the Colombian port of Buenaventura fell by more than 5% during the first quarter, the planned investment programme for 2009 by port company Sprbun will continue. April has seen…

Brazils Special Ports Secretariat (SEP) is set to publish a revised law governing private terminals in national ports.

APM Terminals, which operates the Teconvi box facility at the Brazilian port of Itajaí , has indicated that it is interested in bidding for the area of the port where operations are…

Many Brazilian port watchers are fearful for the future of theSepetiba Tecon box terminal once the Hamburg Sud facility opens atItapoa - probably in around the first quarter of 2010.

Colombias Buenaventura port company expects to face difficult competition over the next two years from other Atlantic coast of ports in the same region. Santa Marta and Barranquilla pose stiff competition in…

APM Terminals has withdrawn from the contract which allowed it to manage Kingston Container Terminal. The company took over the reins in 2001, but has decided not to renew the contract to…

An American and a Mexican company have entered separate bids for the new container terminal at the Mexican port of Guaymas.

Construction of a new 41 acre marine terminal for containerised cargo at Port Everglades has received the go-ahead from the Broward County Board of County Commissioners.

Container terminals in Brazil are forecasting throughput decreases of up to 12% this year; in 2008, throughput rose by almost 4% to around 4.63m teu.

The Argentinian state is to invest $450m in a new ring road and a rail connection at the Port of Bahía Blanca to increase its competitiveness.