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…

Logistically, reports suggest that many Brazilian ports struggled to cope with traffic levels in 2010.

Ecuador’s Puerto Bolívar has finally issued a tender to build Berth 5 after nearly 17 years of planning. Total investment of $43m will be divided between the government and the Port Authority.…

The Brazilian government has declared that it will not extend concession agreements signed by port terminals before the 1993 Modernisation of Ports Act in contradiction to a resolution passed by the National…

The number of containers either seized by the federal authorities or not picked up by importers has resulted in 5,000 unwanted boxes being abandoned at Brazilian ports, challenging the ability of the…

El Salvadors Acajutla and La Unión ports may be offered as a combined package, rather than being tendered as separate concessions.

Strategic studies funded by the United Nations suggest that the reactivation of Argentina’s port of Barranqueras is key to improving transport in South Americas central corridor. In the 1920s, the port was…

A Brazilian parliamentary representative has called for greater private sector investment in port infrastructure to support growth in the agricultural sector.

APM Terminals was the only company to bid for the construction and operation concession for the new container terminal at the Costa Rican port of Moín.

Antwerp Port Authority chief executive Eddy Bruyninckx paid a working visit to the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia recently, signing a collaboration agreement with the federal Secretaria…