South America

Eight companies have been linked to the $230m development of the Ecuadorian port of Manta.

Following its separation from shipping line CSAV, Latin American port terminal operator SAAM has announced its intention to seek investment from the money markets to fund new projects.

The Port of Santos in Brazil is considering raising port fees by 58%, following seven years of the same rate.

The government of the Argentinian state of Santa Fe is to issue a tender for the construction and operation of a new port for a period of 30 years by the end…

With just months remaining before operations at the Chilean port of Coquimbo are transferred to the Ultramar group, officials of the Public Companies Organisation (SEP) have had meetings with port workers in…

A tender for a second container terminal at the Argentinian port of La Plata attracted no bids.

Manta Port Authority in Ecuador is to issue a tender by the end of the first quarter of 2012 to both modernise and expand the port.

The Chilean company Puerto de Lirquén is to issue shares worth $86m to boost capital.

The Ecuadorian government will issue a tender in December for the Port of Manta management contract.

The Inter-American Development Bank has closed a $430m syndicated loan with four international banks to build a new private mixed-use container and liquids terminal at Brazil’s Santos Port.

Over the next five years, Peru is to spend $3bn on modernising its ports network.

Chile’s Puerto Coronel is to invest almost $100m in 2013-2014 in expanding existing installations.

Chilean port operator Puerto de Lirquén is seeking permission to issue shares worth $86m.

Dockworkers in Peru have announced they will go on strike on November 30 in an attempt to pressurise the government into annulling the concession awarded for APM Terminals for the Callao North…

Legal problems that resulted in rail operator Ferromex being banned three times from calling at the Mexican port of Manzanillo have resulted in severe congestion at the container terminal.

In the first week of November, an estimated 7,500 teu bound for the port of Itajaí, Brazil, was forced to divert to other terminals, because of a strike of dockworkers at the…

Private investors are still having a tough time of it in Brazil, according to the country’s National Agency for Waterway Transport (Antaq).

APM Terminals has won an initial legal battle to build and manage a container terminal at Limón in Costa Rica.