North America

The southern Argentinian port of Madryn has suffered significant reduction in the export of many of its core products: aluminium, fish, wool, stone and ceramics. Port workers are worried that high charges…

Glencore and nine Colombian coal mining companies are planning to build a new port in the north of the country costing $1bn and capable of exporting 60m tonnes of coal annually.

Cargill has been given permission to continue exporting soya, millet and derivatives from its grain terminal in the port of Santos despite its concession having expired.

Rio Tinto has suspended its project to build a new iron ore port at Agraciada in Uruguay.

A total of 11 international companies are interested in the 50-year concession being offered for the construction and management of a new container terminal on Costa Ricas Caribbean coast. The project will…

The government of Ecuador is to make changes to the current ports legislation to set down new regulations and limits on port services undertaken by the state, with a view to allowing…

A new tender has been issued for a container and general cargo terminal at the Mexican Port of Tuxpan. This was initially issued in February last year but cancelled in November for…

In 2008, the Panama Canal Authority registered record revenue of more than $2bn, but this was based on fewer deep draught vessels using the facility and a 1% fall in cargo traffic…

The new superintendent of the port of Itajaí, Antonio Ayres, has revealed that the port authority is to function less as a port operator and more as a regulatory agent in the…

A tender has been issued for a new container terminal at the Mexican Port of Manzanillo. Investment of $763m is needed, of which approximately half will be stumped up by the state…

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…