North America

The US port of Long Beach has inaugurated a $3bn capital construction programme to help it remain competitive.

Despite the global economic downturn, the Port of Prince Rupert handled 265,259 teu through the Fairview Container Terminal in 2009, a 45.9% increase over 2008.

The west coasts Port of Los Angeles has partnered with hybrid truck manufacturer Vision Industries to evaluate hydrogen fuel cell hybrid-electric trucks at its terminals.

A tender covering the concession of a second container terminal at the port of Montevideo will be issued on March 17, 2010. It will specify a minimum of four cranes, which will…

Requests have been made to expand three terminals at the Port of Rio de Janeiro in projects worth $327m. These encompass activities at MultiRio, Multicar and Libra Terminais Terminal I.

Localfrio has requested that Santos Port Authority issues a tender for the construction of a container terminal, to be known as Prainha, in the Guarujá area on the ports left bank. It…