South America

Port operations in Chile have been disrupted after dockworkers took part in protest strikes in the country.

Rob Ward gives the port of Callao, Peru a health check and discovers that volumes are growing in 2019 and that the future looks bright.

Buenos Aires may soon have a new $1.9 billion container terminal in Puerto Nuevo, but will thisoccur just as carriers stop direct calls and start feedering from Montevideo or Brazil, asks Rob…

South America’s biggest container volume port, Santos, is forging closer ties with Chinaand targeting profitability, as Rob Ward discovers.

The tender for the $1.9bn development of Puerto Nuevo has been delayed until 2 December, owing to shock results of the Primary Presidential elections in early August, as Rob Ward discovers.

A major global port operator has evolved its operations in a South American country from a greenfield terminal to a fully integrated maritime and logistics hub.

The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has issued a development partner tender for the design and construction of a new port that can handle the same type of cargo as the current port…

China State Construction Engineering Corporation is interested in port projects in the Argentinean province of Corrientes and has already had negotiations with governor Gustavo Valdés.

The government of Costa Rica is considering investment in four port projects and has committed $3.348m to pre-investment studies.

In Chile, the head of the national shipowners’ association Asociación Nacional de Armadores (ANA) has forecast a prompt re-tendering of Terminal 2 (T2) at the Port of Valparaíso following the departure of…

Uruguay’s national ports administration Administración Nacional de Puertos (ANP) has said it is not viable to build a dedicated container terminal for MSC at the Port of Montevideo. This follows an analysis…

DP World is looking at concessions in up to seven Latin American ports in the next year, according to the company’s chief operating officer.

Brazil’s Porto Itapoá, a private-use terminal located in Santa Catarina state, has concluded a financing package worth $116m to boost capacity.

Nicaragua’s national port company Empresa Portuaria Nacional has revealed details of investment opportunities available in the ports of Corinto, Puerto San Juan del Sur and Bluefields.

Five of Chile’s publicly-owned but privately-managed ports reported losses in 2018. Arica, Iquique, Coquimbo, Valparaíso and Chacabuco all posted lower figures last year than they did in 2017.

In Peru, it will be the ports sector that receives most infrastructure investment in 2019.