South America

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.

Juan Rassmuss, director of Invercap, the parent company of Chile’s CAP, has criticised the management of CAP for the purchase of the port of Las Losas from its CMP subsidiary at a…

Panamas National Customs Authority is investigating the port of Balboa following complaints from Bolivia that owners of containers being scanned were charged $540 each.

Brazils federal government waterway transport agency, Antaq, will issue a tender this year for a new public port to be built in Ilhéus, on the southern coast of Bahia state.

Port unions in Costa Rica remain confident that an agreement can be reached with the government regarding the future of the Limón-Moín port concession.

Perus state investment body, Proinversión, says that the Port of Salaverry will be offered as a concession later this year.