South America

Walter Solís has been forced to quit his job as Ecuador’s Minister of Transport and Public Works following his strategic error in extending the bidding process for the Port of Manta by…

Kevin Lazo has been relieved of his post as head of Manta Port Authority (APM), in Ecuador, and replaced by Mr José Miguel García Auz.

Thiago Norões, secretary of state for Economic Development in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, has revealed that projects valued at $650m will be put out to tender at the Port of Suape…

Maurício Quintella Lessa, the Brazilian Minister for Transport, Ports and Civil Aviation, has confirmed that funds are not available for the second phase development of the basin at Itajaí Port Complex, which…

Phase 2 development of Iquique port in northern Chile should start by October at the latest, according to Iquique Port Company (EPI), when the bidding process is expected to be launched.

In the first half of 2017, the government of Argentina is to launch a tender linked to land reclamation in the port of Buenos Aires, which aims to create new quays able…

Ports in the Argentinean province of Buenos Aires will not be privatised, Marcelo Lobbosco, heads of the ports department, has said.

Chiles Foreign Minister used his Twitter account to confirm that construction will now go ahead of a new deep water port at San Antonio, in Valparaísos southern zone. The announcement co-incided with…

Political instability, difficulties in securing finance and legal uncertainty resulting from changes to regulatory frameworks have combined to deter potential foreign investors to Brazilian infrastructure projects, according to Fernando Marcondes, partner at…

In Brazil, Wellington Moreira Franco, the minister responsible for the country’s port concession programme, has asked for patience in respect of difficulties that have emerged in implementation.

Otto Bottger, DP Worlds commercial manager for the South American west coast and future director of the Posorja container terminal, has confirmed that the operator is to invest $1.2bn in its latest…

A request by Contecon, the ICTSI company which operates the container terminal at the port of Libertador Simón Bolívar de Guayaquil, to have DP Worlds Posorja concession suspended as a precautionary measure…

Guatemala’s Auditor General, Carlos Mencos, has filed a criminal complaint in respect of 19 contracts that are in force in the Port of Quetzal (EPQ) on the grounds that they transfer public…

ICTSIs Guayaquil subsidiary, Contecon, has filed a claim against DP World and Dubai World Corp to Ecuadors Antitrust Agency, the Superintendent of Market Control (SCPM), for uncompetitive and monopoly practices in respect…