{"id":6582,"date":"2015-09-07T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2015\/09\/07\/brighter-times-ahead\/"},"modified":"2015-09-07T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:24:00","slug":"brighter-times-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/south-america\/brighter-times-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighter times ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>New kids on the block<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The current situation with regards to container terminal provision in Chile&#8217;s key central region is changing. In the short term, new box terminals are being added at both Valpara\u00edso and San Antonio, while the government is backing a much more ambitious deepwater development over the long term.<\/p>\n<p>For TPS, the new rival is known as TCVAL, which will operate the new Terminal 2. Asked whether this will prove competition for TPS&#8217; existing cargo, or whether it will generate entirely new movement, TPS&#8217; spokesperson said it is difficult to predict with any certainty how the market will evolve and therefore what type of traffic will be generated by TCVAL. It a case of \u2018wait and see\u2019 on that front.<\/p>\n<p>In respect of the new deep water port, Valpara\u00edso port authority\u2019s Erick Novoa notes: \u201cThe government, which is studying various possibilities, will take the final decision on the best location, which could also encompass the simultaneous development of two terminals: one in Valpara\u00edso and another in San Antonio; or it might simply choose to build one mega-port. The consensus view seems to be that both ports are complementary and that it would therefore be logical for both of them to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, he does identify certain key advantages offered by Valpara\u00edso, especially in terms of innovation, which has resulted in the port becoming something of a reference point in Latin America in the area of logistics.<\/p>\n<p>He also emphasises the quality of the port&#8217;s workforce, which has seen Valpara\u00edso enjoy relative labour peace compared with other Chilean ports in recent years. Furthermore, he notes that it will take at least ten years before such a new port enters service, give Valpara\u00edso even more time to cement its importance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a short term slowdown, long terms prospects for Chilean ports look bright, finds Alex Hughes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}