North America

Long Beach and Los Angeles are working together to reduce congestion. The two giants have finally settled a squabble that threatened to undermine an innovative plan to speed up cargo moving through…

Panama Maritime Authority (APM) is to pre-qualify all those international stevedoring groups interested in managing its new US$600m Pacific coast container port project.

Long Beach is seeking public input for an Environmental Impact Report intended to address a cleanup project at Pier A West, a 123-acre oil field.

Sudamericana Agencias Aereas y Maritimas (SAAM) has been given permission to raise its stakeholding in Chiles San Antonio Terminal Internacional (STI) from 40% to 60%. SAAM acquired an initial 39.99% stake when…

In an interesting move, Spanish stevedoring group Dragados-SPL has commenced negotiations with the port authority of the Texan port of Corpus Christi regarding a possible 96-year concession to build a brand new…

Uruguays National Ports Administration (ANP) has awarded a dredging contract to Jan De Nul worth US$6.63m.

Amidst the political storm raging in the US over DP Worlds acquisition of P& O Ports, the Dubai company is to separate the US part of P& O Ports which will effectively…

The Mexican port of Tampico is to spend US$9.56m on dredging the access channel to its previous depth of 35 feet.

As a result, two government departments have been asked to look into anomalies amounting to US$3.8m. The Mexican port of Altamira has scheduled projects for the next few years requiring private sector…

The port authority has outlined core marketing and operational strategies focusing on adding all-water services to and from Asia

In the next two years Santos port operator Libra Terminais is to boost box handling capacity by 50%. However, this depends on the port authority carrying out two commitments it agreed to…

The US$1bn megaport in Panama is already proving a source of controversy at the planning stage. Of the ten leading container terminal operators who met in Panama at the end of November…

APN, Perus national port authority, has rubberstamped plans to build a new box terminal at the port of Callao as part of a private-sector concession.

However, the concession route has not been adopted for the upgrading of facilities and Quay 5, at least not for the moment.The Denmark-based Centre for Port Dimensioning has given the go-ahead for…

However, the concession route has not been adopted for the upgrading of facilities and Quay 5, at least not for the moment.Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has bought a 78.5% stake in…