South America – Page 37

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    Peru to handle 2m teu by 2014

    2012-03-29T10:00:00Z

    Peru’s National Port Authority has forecast that cargo handled by its national ports network will rise by 14%-15% on average over the next five years.

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    Manta close to finalising tender

    2012-03-28T09:39:00Z

    Guillermo Morán, managing director of Manta port authority in Ecuador, has publicly stated that the organisation is close to finalising terms and conditions for the international tender that will result in a complete new container terminal complex being built at the port.

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    Brazil mulls Docas privatisation

    2012-03-26T16:13:00Z

    The Brazilian government is looking at the possibility of privatising national ports.

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    Canal expansion faces seven-month delay

    2012-03-26T16:13:00Z

    The design and construction contract to build the third set of locks for the Panama canal is to suffer a seven-month delay.

  • The Callao concession has been a bumpy process
    News

    APMT Callao investment assured

    2012-03-08T17:08:00Z

    APM Terminals was granted an extension to file the required stability report for its North Terminal concession at Peru’s Port of Callao, Port Strategy has learned.

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    Eight bids expected for Manta

    2012-03-05T13:58:00Z

    Eight companies have been linked to the $230m development of the Ecuadorian port of Manta.

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    SAAM to invest $2bn in ports

    2012-02-28T10:09:00Z

    Following its separation from shipping line CSAV, Latin American port terminal operator SAAM has announced its intention to seek investment from the money markets to fund new projects.

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    Santos to hike fees by 58%

    2012-02-21T10:00:00Z

    The Port of Santos in Brazil is considering raising port fees by 58%, following seven years of the same rate.

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    New Santa Fe port mooted

    2012-02-08T10:00:00Z

    The government of the Argentinian state of Santa Fe is to issue a tender for the construction and operation of a new port for a period of 30 years by the end of March.

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    Coquimbo looks to compensate workers

    2012-02-06T10:00:00Z

    With just months remaining before operations at the Chilean port of Coquimbo are transferred to the Ultramar group, officials of the Public Companies Organisation (SEP) have had meetings with port workers in respect of compensation and pension payments.

  • Compliants investigated over Acu port development
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    Complaints mount over Açu super port project

    2012-02-03T12:23:00Z

    Rio De Janeiro''s State Council for Human Rights has received complaints of coercion and a lack of respect from residents of São João da Barra concerning the state''s Açu super port development.

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    Brazil to put 77 terminals to tender

    2012-02-03T12:23:00Z

    The Brazilian government has decided that 77 port terminals currently operated by the private sector and whose concession was granted prior to 1993 must be put out to tender.

  • Cloud still hangs over Callao concession
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    Officials summoned over Callao debacle

    2012-01-20T16:25:00Z

    The Transport Commission of the Peruvian Congress has called high ranking officials to appear before it to answer questions relating to irregularities in the concession granted to APM Terminals for the North Terminal at Callao.

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    No bids for second La Plata box terminal

    2012-01-12T10:00:00Z

    A tender for a second container terminal at the Argentinian port of La Plata attracted no bids.

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    Manta tender by first quarter

    2012-01-10T10:00:00Z

    Manta Port Authority in Ecuador is to issue a tender by the end of the first quarter of 2012 to both modernise and expand the port.

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    Antofagasta sues government to recover land

    2012-01-06T10:00:00Z

    Antofagasta Port Company (EPA) is locked in a legal battle with the state prosecutor in respect of ownership of part of its land along the Costanera Central.

  • APM is aiming to make Mexico more competitive in world markets
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    APM wins Lázaro Cárdenas concession

    2012-01-04T10:40:00Z

    APM Terminals has won a deepwater container terminal bid at Mexico''s Port of Lázaro Cárdenas, snaring a project that includes a 32-year design, build and operate concession of a greenfield site.

  • Argentina has long claimed sovereignty over The Falklands and the dispute continues
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    Mercosur refuses entry to Falklands ships

    2011-12-28T16:17:00Z

    The Falklands dispute has once again reared its ugly head with the recent decision taken by the Mercosur group of countries to refuse entry to Falkland flagged vessels to ports.

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    Puerto Lirquen to issue shares

    2011-12-14T21:29:00Z

    The Chilean company Puerto de Lirquén is to issue shares worth $86m to boost capital.

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    Stevedores revolt at San Antonio

    2011-12-09T10:00:00Z

    Following a decision to withhold a mitigation bonus to more than 1,000 stevedores, Puerto Central, which has recently taken over the management of the Costanera Espigón container terminal at the Chilean port of San Antonio, is being taken to court to have this overturned.