South America

The Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Basic Industries (Abdib) has estimated that the adoption of new ports legislation could stimulate investment of $24.6bn by eliminating barriers to entry for private capital.

Both houses of the Brazilian parliament have voted into law interim measure 595, which it is hoped will greatly increase the competitiveness of the Brazilian ports industry.

North American ports which don’t invest to upgrade their facilities ready for the upcoming Panama Canal expansion in 2015 “risk capsizing their economies”, says K C Conway, author of Colliers International’s third…

Panama based IT consulting company, Advanced Consulting, and Israel based optical character recognition (OCR) supplier, have been awarded a project by the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) to implement OCR on 53 cranes…

The Government of Jamaica has revealed ambitious plans to turn the Caribbean island in to a global logistics hub – and high level talks have already begun with the aim of increasing…