South America

During Brazils recent cereals harvest, the queue of trucks heading into the port of Paranaguá averaged around 17 km in length. At one point, it had extended to 25 km, according to…

The Transport Infrastructure Department of Brazil has been given a budget of $9.34bn for 2011, which will have to be shared equally between highways, waterways and railways.

An APM Terminals-consortium has been awarded the concession to operate the Muelle Norte terminal at the Peruvian port of Callao.

Argentinas General Ports Administration (AGP), which oversees operators at the port of Buenos Aires, is to undertake an integral analysis of concessions following recent requests for them to be renewed.

The ports of Calllao (Peru), Buenaventura (Columbia), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Valparaíso (Chile) and San Antonio (Chile) have signed an agreement to create the South American Pacific Port Community (COPASUD).

Paul Gallie, APM Terminals director of Central and South American investments has costed the proposed new container terminal in Costa Ricas Limón province at around $992m. The reference price in the tender…

Alberto Diaz, president of the National Ports Authority of Uruguay, has forecast that 2011 will be a record year for container throughput, beating the previous historic high registered in 2008. Last year,…

The state government has intervened to try and allow Brazil’s Paranaguá and Antonina Port Authority (APPA) to gain access to a previous budgetary surplus, which had been frozen by the federal Justice…