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El Salvadors port authority (CEPA) urgently needs to privatise its ports to stop its finances passing into the red, according to local sources.

The four container terminals in the Brazilian port of Santos are to take on 300 additional employees this year. Santos-Brazil will contract 72 labourers and Tecondi 70, the rest will be divided…

The Puget Sounds air quality has just got another boost. The Ports of Seattle, Tacoma and PSCAA put in match funding to complement an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), grant of over $300,000.

Toledo Port Authority and Melford International Terminal have signed an agreement which will see Toledo function as an inland port receiving boxes from a projected new container terminal that Melford plans to…

São Sebastião Port Authority is seeking government help to undertake restructuring of the port, where it is hoping to build a further four deep water berths. These will be developed and operated…

Santos Port Authority has begun preparing tender documents covering port terminals whose current contracts come up for renewal within the next few years. This will affect at least 10 terminals. Three of…

A total of $150m is being invested in the Colombian port of Cartagena on the Caribbean coast to upgrade its container handling facilities. This will allow it to compete with Jamaicas Kingston…

Despite being announced four years ago, the project to build the Panamanian port of Farfán has yet to make progress.

Trade union leaders in Costa Rica continue to oppose Limón-Moíns privatisation plans claiming that it would not be in the interest of workers because the port complex is currently profitable.

Mobile Container Terminal, a joint venture between APM Terminals and the Terminal Link subsidiary of the CMA CGM group, has started operations at the US port of Mobile. Its current capacity of…

Brazils Special Secretariat of Ports (SEP) has published a tender in respect of the deepening of the access channel at the Port of Rio Grande. Investment will be $84m, of which $63m…

Chiles port of Mejillones plans to upgrade its facilities in order to be able to store and ship iron ore from mid-2009 onwards, media have reported.

According to San Antonio Port Company (EPSA), several global stevedoring groups have expressed an interest in the 30-year concession to build and operate the new Costanera terminal at the port. With an…

US investors have shown great interest in financing the improvement of Pimentel port in the northern Peruvian city of Chiclayo, local mayor Roberto Jacinto Purizaca has said.

The Mexican deep water Port of Tuxpan will definitely go ahead at a cost of $280m. Finance will come from a consortium of ports and industrial parks, as well as from the…

Maryland Port Authority has hired consultants to identify potential bidders interested in spending $100m-$120m on boosting capacity at the Seagirt Marine Terminal in return for a lease agreement.