South America

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.

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

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.

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.