South America

Brazils National Waterway Transport Agency (Antaq) has scheduled four rounds of tenders covering the privatisation of terminals at Brazilian ports.

Resolution 3433, which was adopted by Argentinas Federal Administration of Public Revenue in March, has resulted in a hike in costs at the country’s ports.

Columbias new container terminal, Buenaventura, (TCBuen), has become the first Latin American terminal to implement new optical character recognition (OCR) systems and Differential GPS (DGPS) quay cranes, yard cranes and input processes.

The public prosecutor at the town of Campos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is threatening to take legal action against the EBX group.

The Mexican Transport Minister believes that the port of Guaymas could substitute for the abandoned Punta Colonet project as the flagship port development for the current government.

The northern Chilean port of Antofagasta is to issue a tender for a concession covering four new berths.