North America

In the first seven months, container traffic at the port of Seattle was down 8% to 1.02bn teu. At Los Angeles and Long Beach, there were downturns of 6.1% and 9.4% respectively…

Paraguay says it is evaluating investment in its river port infrastructure. However its main focus will be on upgrading road infrastructure to improve access to and from the ports.

Santos is to open four further container berths to boost capacity from 3m teu to 4m teu. The $515m project will involve an area of 541,000 su m and be eligible for…

The Euro Oslo container vessel that crashed into Quay 3 at Colon container terminal in Manzanillo Bay in Panama has agreed to pay $10m in compensation to the Port Company.

The Modernisation and Revitalisation Department of Brazils Ports Secretariat has confirmed that ports in the North East of the country are going to receive major investment to fund large modernisation projects.

The Peruvian government has reduced planned concession periods for port terminal operators from 60 years down to 30 years, blaming a typing error for the initial published figure.