South America

Latin American countries need to look beyond increasingly large ports and consider logistics, Ricardo Sánchez, chief of the infrastructure services unit at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean,…

Empermontt, the Puerto Montt port operator in Chile, has been given permission to go ahead with a $50m investment in a new dry bulk terminal at Panitao. However, it is expected to…

All work on the projected Terminal Port of Lajes in Brazil has been halted by a court injunction taken out by the Federal Public Ministry.

Poor administration of the port of Paranaguá during a period of government ownership led to $11.28bn in losses for local producers, particularly those in the agriculture sector, a local economist has calculated.

Bolivariana do Portos and China Harbour Engineering Company have signed a $520m contract to build a container terminal at the Venezuelan port of Cabello.

A third tender at the Port of Talcahuano has attracted just a single bid from Empresas Navieras Holding.

Following agreements between Chile and Argentina to build a new rail tunnel and upgrade roads across the Andes to allow Chilean ports to handle more cargo, the Peruvian ports of Callao and…

The president of Ecuador has signed a decree allowing the port of Manta to be offered as a single concession and an operator is expected to be in place by December.

Santos Brasil has converted 58 petrol-driven vehicles at its Santos container terminal to work with ethanol, which will cut CO2 emissions by 73%.

ProInversión is to privatise the Peruvian ports of General San Martín and San Juan de Marcona in 2012.

The Presidential Commission for Port Modernisation and Security in the Dominican Republic has said that it is considering reforms to existing port legislation.

Dockworkers at the port of Valparaiso have announced a strike after having failed to reach an agreement with port operator EPV in respect of the Terminal 2 and the Mall Plaza Barón…

Brazils federal government has announcement that it will issue a tender for the port of Manaus by February 2012.

Tecon Salvador SA has gained financing from Cordiant Capital to refurbish and double the terminal’s container handling capacity as well as cutting the costs for Brazil’s rising exports industry.

A ruling on the concession for second container terminal at the Mexican port of Lázaro Cárdenas will be made in November.

A total of 11 groups have bought tender documents for the privatisation of the Chilean port of Talcahuano, of which six are said to be very interested. An award is expected on…

The Parliament of El Salvador has approved legislation allowing the port of La Unión to be privatised. The facility was built at a cost of $187m and aims to enable the country…

Armasur, the professional body representing maritime transport operators in Chile, is opposing the concession to build the proposed Punta Panitao port in the south of the country.

Uruguays National Ports Authority (ANP) wants to move empty containers outside the port of Montevideo to avoid operational collapse at the container terminal.

All concessionaires at the port of Santos will have to meet minimum productivity standards in future or risk having their concessions withdrawn.