South America

The Ecuadorian port of Manta is trying to attract coffee, cacao, banana and fish cargo generated by the Manabí region of the country that is currently shipped out via Guayaquil or Puerto…

Brazilian container terminal operator, the Libra group, plans to spend $713m over the next five years to double its handling capacity. In all, $327m will be spent at its installations in Santos,…

Lima Chamber of Commerce estimates that Peru needs to invest $2bn to improve the quality of its ports, equivalent to 20% of all the transport infrastructure requirements in the country.

The government of the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo is set to make a decision on the location of the proposed $594m new deep water port. In pole position is Praia Mole…

Growing demand in Colombia has led to suggestions that the navigable channel should be reinstated on the Magdalena River, given the difficulty of building roads through the interior of the country.

A $300m port has been given the go-ahead by the environmental authorities in Chile.

Lira group, APM Terminals and an Italian company have all bid to develop the New Port of Manaus in Brazil. The port will occupy a site formerly used by the Amazonas Steel…

The French Institute of Independent Financial Studies and Piedrabuena have offered to take over a stalled project to build the Port of Río Grande in Argentina. The debt owed by the original…

The head of the UNs Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ricardo Sanchez, has said that Latin American governments need to redefine their port policies as a means of integrating…

The governments of Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay are seeking finance from the South American Regional Infrastructure Integration Initiative fund to finance pre-feasibility studies for the construction of a deepwater port on Uruguays…

Brazilian Ports Minister, Pedro Brito, has made available $10.27m to the Ceará ports authority for the improvement of the Port of Fortaleza. Part of the money will be spent on upgrading paving…

The latest and largest container terminal on South America’s west coast has been officially opened, a year ahead of schedule after just over two years of construction work.

Brazils Ports Secretariat (SEP) is to tackle a lack of information, communications problems, non-registered documents and a lack of operational security at its ports.

Brazils Ports Secretariat (SEP) has extended the deadline for bids to build a new port at the city of Manaus for a second time. The port is required to service the Manaus…

The port of Santos has become the test-bed of low sulphur fuel on a containership in a trial that will yield valuable emissions data for the US’ Environmental Protection Agency.

A berth in the Port of Itajai that was damaged by floods two years ago is now ready for APM Terminals to install crane rails and electric power infrastructure for ship-to-shore cranes.

The Transport and Communications Ministry in Peru has approved applications to build a new port terminal at Pucallpa, which it calculates will require investment of at least $16.7m.

Chiles Constitutional Tribunal has overturned an attempt by the port workers at Coquimbo to prevent modernisation of their facility from going ahead.

Chiles Public Companies System (SEP) has approved the issue of tenders for new terminal concessions in the ports of San Antonio and Valparaiso.

Three-quarters of Altamira’s expansion work has been completed, with operations scheduled to commence in the first quarter of next year, according to officials.