South America

Port of Callao has two global terminal operators, with both looking to raise capacity. AJ Keyes looks at the different plans and what the short-term holds for Peru’s largest container port.

While Chile’s port decision makers ponder whether or not to push ahead with the$3.5billion Puerto Exterior (Outer Port) project, there are growing fears that all Chilean ports may become only feeder ports,…

The Buenos Aires port labour conundrum is still ongoing but, as Rob Ward discovers,peace at the port is now in the hands of three shipping lines.

A Brazilian port and maritime logistics operator has invested in an Israeli tech startup that will enable it to boost safe navigation and efficiency.

A new tunnel is the “best solution” for Port of Santos cross-port connectivity. In an exclusive interview, Rob Ward talks to Casemiro Tercio Carvalho, a leading proponent of the tunnel option, to…

MultiRio container terminal in Rio de Janeiro has a new terminal operating deal and is gearing up to handle the largest box ships in the East Coast of South America (ECSA) trades,…

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic causing economic havoc globally, container terminals in Panamaare posting healthy throughput increases in transshipment. Rob Ward looks at the pattern of events.

San Antonio Terminal Internacional (STI) will invest US$46m to extend its concession at the Port of San Antonio in Chile.

Port terminals will be hit by cost-cutting measures that will likely impact modernisation and technology investments.

A battle is brewing in Santos. Should there be a tunnel or a bridge to link the two disparatesides of the port area? Or neither? Rob Ward investigates.

Rob Ward investigates the impact of the strike by truckers in Chile that ended in September 2020.

Ecuador’s Port of Guayaquil is set to receive US£18m investment to boost its capacity to handle neopanamax vessels.

Despite the Coronavirus pandemic and poor economic climate, East Coast South America (ECSA)to US East and Gulf coast trades is holding up well for Brazilian exports, as Rob Ward discovers

New Santos Port Authority President, Fernando Henrique Passos Biral, has a clear picture of what needs to be done to propel the port forward, he talks exclusively to Rob Ward

Container managers in Brazil expected the CMA CGM extra-loader, APL Paris to call in Santos,but instead it went to Itajaí. Rob Ward explains.

13 port terminal tenders are due to be executed in Brazil by the end of the year.

The man who was brought in to “revolutionise” Santos, South America’s biggest port, has surprisingly resigned, after just over a year in the hot seat, as Rob Ward explains.

Among all the South American countries, Chile seems to have escaped many of the worst ravages of the coronavirus, as Rob Ward confirms.

Porto Itapoa, the container terminal partly owned by Maersk Line, has leapt into third position in the Brazilian box hierarchy, as Rob Ward discovers.

After several years of ups and downs and funding setbacks, the Brazilian portof Itajai may finally be fully back on track. Rob Ward investigates.