South America

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…