South America

Venezuelas transport and communications ministry has signed an agreement with the Portuguese government for an expansion project at La Guaira port in Vargas state.

Peru says it is going to strengthen the National Ports Administration, Enapu, which will continue to function as the administrator for all the public ports owned by the state.

The Brazilian port of Maranhão is to construct a new grain terminal at a cost of $159m. A tender has been issued based on the facility handling 5m tonnes annually by July…

Uruguays National Ports Authority (ANP) is to hike tariffs, which are calculated in US dollars, by 20%.

The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) has sent a letter to the Joint Selection Committee on Deficit Reduction asking it to take into account the benefits derived from port activities prior…

A total of six sets of tender documents relating to the privatisation of the Chilean port of Coquimbo have already been sold, although it is expected that this number will double.

The tender for second port concession at the city of Manaus in the Brazilian state of Amazonas will not now be issued until 2012. Originally, the tender was slated for 2010, but…

A new tender for the proposed Terminal 2 at the Chilean Port of Valparaiso is to be issued in the first half of 2012.

The Chilean port of Coquimbo will shortly be offered as a concession as a means of expanding its working area and thereby allowing it to more easily accommodate larger vessels.

The port of Santos will have received combined private and public investment of $6bn by 2024 aimed at improving infrastructure and capacity.

The government of Uruguay has re-activated a project that first emerged in 2005 to build a new deepwater port at Garzón.

The Superintendent at the Brazilian port of Itajaí is to cancel the contract signed with a local law firm, following a recommendation by the public prosecutors office of the state of Santa…

Seven hundred port workers at the Brazilian port of Paranaguá and Antonina have received a pay adjustment of approximately 27%. Their salaries have been effectively frozen since 2009.

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal) has criticised the lack of investment in Latin American ports, warning that existing infrastructure is inadequate to absorb increasing export potential from…

Brazil is planning to build four new ports at Manaus, at Sul in Bahia state, in Espírito Santo state - where a deepwater port is planned - and a new multipurpose terminal…

As a means of expanding volumes, while at the same time reducing costs, the Brazilian port of Rio Grande is to sign cooperation agreements with terminals in Montevideo and Buenos Aires.

The Peruvian Ministry of Transport and Communications has confirmed that DP World is taking legal action for alleged unfair competition linked to the North Terminal concession at its port of Callao.

Santos port authority, Codesp, and representatives from the governing body of Brazilian ports, Antaq, recently came together as part of a working group to look into ways of re-modelling Santos to enable…