South America

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.…

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…

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.

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.

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.