North America

Uruguay is seeking international cooperation to enable the Martí n Garcí a Channel, which gives access to the port of Nueva Palmira, to be maintained at a depth of 32 feet. It…

Kalmar Industries has won an order from the Port of Tacoma on the US West Coast for the supply of seven CSC 340 straddle carriers to be delivered in October for the…

MSC and Ceres Gulf Inc have put together a joint-venture, New Orleans Terminals LLC, to manage the first phase of the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal. This facility is currently operated by Ceres…

The Rio Tinto mining company is to build a port in western Uruguay where it will dispatch iron ore from mines at Corumbá , in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. This will…

Colombias National Concessions Institute (Inco) has authorised Sociedad Cemas SA to invest $13.6m in the port of Buenaventura. 

Lá zaro Cá rdenas Port Authority has issued a tender in respect of a terminal handling new vehicles. The terminal will cover an area of 400,000 sq m and have a quay…

The Argentinian port of Santa Fe has been given a $25m loan, which will be used to relocate existing port facilities to the right bank of the Paraná River.

Seven bids have been received for the privatisation of the Chilean ports of Chacao and Punta Coronel, with 15 companies represented overall. Work is expected to commence in the second half of…

Marine Terminals Corporation, the biggest operator of ports on the US west coast, has declared an interest in bidding for the second container terminal at the Mexican port of Lá zaro Cá…

Local members of Parliament in Peru have called on the government to invest urgently in the port of Paita, which has a key export function. Local authorities have also put together a…

Perus Transport and Communications Minister, Veró nica Zavala, has announced that the ports of Pisco, Pucallpa, Iquitos and Paita will be offered for concessions between July and September this year. The government…

Georgia Ports Authority has announced that an upgrade to one of its container berths at the Port of Savannah is now complete, with installation of electrified refrigerated cargo racks, and transfer of…

PSA, which is building the new Panamanian port of Rodman, has written to the government to advise that it will not be bidding in the tender for a second port to be…

Thedirector of Terminales del Ecuador Paul Gallie has asked the governmentto eradicate some of the obstacles that could deter shipping lines fromcalling at the port of Manta.

Despite the fact that the Mexican government announced in mid-2007 that it would issue a tender in the first quarter of 2008 in respect of the concession for the port of Colonet,…

ThePeruvian Transport Ministry has announced that the regional ports ofPisco, Paita and Ilo, as well as the river ports at Pucallpa andIquitos, will be put out of concession in 2008. Investment of…