South America

The Inter-American Development Bank has closed a $430m syndicated loan with four international banks to build a new private mixed-use container and liquids terminal at Brazil’s Santos Port.

Over the next five years, Peru is to spend $3bn on modernising its ports network.

Dockworkers in Peru have announced they will go on strike on November 30 in an attempt to pressurise the government into annulling the concession awarded for APM Terminals for the Callao North…

Legal problems that resulted in rail operator Ferromex being banned three times from calling at the Mexican port of Manzanillo have resulted in severe congestion at the container terminal.

In the first week of November, an estimated 7,500 teu bound for the port of Itajaí, Brazil, was forced to divert to other terminals, because of a strike of dockworkers at the…

Private investors are still having a tough time of it in Brazil, according to the country’s National Agency for Waterway Transport (Antaq).

APM Terminals has won an initial legal battle to build and manage a container terminal at Limón in Costa Rica.

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…