South America

At APM Terminals’ (APMT) facilities in San Antonio and Santiago, located in Chile, security staff are now using drones to monitor activities. They believe that this is not only more effective, but…

The Port of Santos, which accounts for one third of all Brazil’s import-export traffic, is currently managed by the state-owned Companhia Docas do Estado de São Paulo, which reports directly to the…

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has received the green light from the Netherlands’ Ministry of Finance and the municipality of Rotterdam for work with Brazil’s Port of Pecém.

Following a referral to Argentina’s competition authority, Comisión Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia (CNDC), for “conduct and restrictive acts of competition in the Port of Buenos Aires”, where Maersk, Hamburg Süd and…

The four-year legal dispute between Super Terminais and Porto Chibatão in Manaus in Brazil shows no sign of being resolved.

A report set up in October 2017 by the World Bank to look into the performance of free zones in Chile has found that Iquique has faced problems because of outdated infrastructure.

The Argentinian government’s decision to unify the Port of Buenos Aires’ five box terminals under the single operator in 2019 has caused skirmishes to break out between some of the existing operators.

In Mexico, a Puerto de Matamoros development plan that includes a multipurpose terminal will require overall investment of $100m.

A study undertaken by the Chilean construction association Cámara Chilena de la Construcción (CchC) has found that the Port of San Antonio is handling 18.5m tonnes annually, close to the engineering capacity…