North America

The Port of Tacoma, in cooperation with the Puget Sound Maritime Air Forum, has released a scientific study measuring maritime-related air emissions in Puget Sound.The inventory will form a baseline for future…

Santos Port Authority is to put out to concession nine terminals by 2010. 

San Vicente Terminal Internacional has been granted a 15-year extension to its container terminal concession at the Chilean port of the same name.The concession will now run for 30 years as from…

The Spanish company Alinport has begun construction of the port of Posorja in Ecuador, which will occupy a 200,000 square metre area.Total cost is $450m.

Santa Catarina, with investment of € 491m ($664.3m), is Brazil' s leading port this year in terms of private capital.Part of the money is being spent on constructing two new complexes, various…

Halifax Port Authority has awarded a wide-area surveillance contract to PureTech Systems.The technology will be installed under a C$8m (US$7.2m) contract.

The governor of the Panamanian province of Chiriquí has asked Panama Maritime Authority to have another look at the concession awarded to a company in Pedregal port, which he believes has not…

Panama Maritime Authority is to invest more than $700,000 across 10 minor ports.Work will involve minor repairs and upgrades to buildings and infrastructure. 

Philadelphias maritime community has come out guns blazing in a battle to stop prime waterfront acreage falling into the  hands of a non-marine business.

An affiliate of the RREEF fund, a Deutsche Bank entity investing in infrastructure assets, has confirmed that it will be acquiring Maher Terminals - active in New York and gaining a foothold…

An environmental license granted to Palermo Port has been ruled illegal and may be revoked,putting port development in doubt.

Venezuelas Ministry of Infrastructure has been instructed to set up a joint company with Cuba, which will be known as Bolivariana de Puertos (BPSA), to modernise, rehabilitate, equip and build ports in…

The government of Panama is to build a series of 12 quays in the province of Colón.

On March 17, DP World completed the sale of its former P& O Ports US assets to the AIG Global Investment Group, which will henceforth market them as Ports America.

Cargo throughput at the Port of New York and New Jersey hit record levels in 2006. The rise has prompted the port authority to commit to a $2bn investment programme over the…

Short-sea shipping is the only answer to the US capacity crunch, according to Charles Raymond, chairman, president and chief executive of Horizon Lines. In his view,rising container imports are placing extreme pressure…

The government of the state of São Paulo has requested that the central government cedes control of the port of Santos to it. However, any transfer must be free of the ¢…