South America

Ricardo Sanchez, head of the Infrastructure Services Unit of the Economic Commission for Latin America, says Chile faces a 14.4% annual traffic growth in its ports in the near future.

Ports in Central America are investing as a means of remaining regionally competitive, according to the Central American Commission for Maritime Transport (Cocatram).

Authorities in Uruguay are taking a second look at the project to build a second container terminal in the port of Montevideo.

The state of Rio de Janeiro will have five new terminals in the short to medium term. Açú, which is being built by LLX in the north of the State, is already…

Chiles Ministry of Public Works has issued a tender for the construction of a quay and harbour at San Pedro de Chañaral in the Atacama region in the north of the country.…

Plans to build and operate a new port complex in Costa Ricas eastern Limón province have attracted a $950m price tag, port authority president Allan Hidalgo has said.

El Salvadors La Union port opened on May 31, after receiving the ship and port facility security code (ISPS code) approval required to begin operations, an official from maritime ports authority AMP…

Shipping line Maersk is exploring the possibility of making use of Puerto Bolívar in Ecuador, where it already calls at both Guayquil and Esmeraldas. The port is building the new quay and…

Latest figures from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) detail a 6.8% drop in numbers of containers handled in the 20 leading ports in South America last year.

The São Paulo-based Ambitec group is to build a $462m port at Aracruz, to be known as the Terminal Multimodal Capixaba. Operations are scheduled to start in 2014 and will cover an…

A public inquiry into a proposed new private port in the Brazilian state of Bahia has divided public opinion in Ilhéus.

The Port of Manta passed back to the control of the government of Ecuador from April 1 closing the door onlast year’s failed concession attempt.

After a lull of six years, the Chilean government is to reactivate its ports privatisation programme in 2010.

An auction which took place on the Montevideo stock exchange for the rights to build a second terminal at the Port of Montevideo attracted no bids and was consequently scrapped.

Eight consortia have pre-qualified for the Guaymas container terminal project in Mexico.

The almost complete destruction of the Chilean Port of Talcahuano during the recent earthquake may ironically help to boost Chiles longer term ability to handle larger vessels.

The TSCC Consortium, in charge of the reconstruction works of the Port of Itajaí, has laid out a new plan to speed up the completion of works on berths 01 and 02,…

More than 42 companies have acquired the bidding rules for the $812m port concession being offered by Costa Rica in Limón province.

Ports around New Zealand went on alert as a tsunami raced across the Pacific with the speed of a jetliner following an 8.8-magnitude earthquake just off the Chile coast in late February.