North America – Page 54
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Brazilian port contracts under scrutiny
Brazil''s Commission on Financial Oversight is to investigate contracts awarded for work worth $285m at 16 of Brazil''s ports. These involve dredging and infrastructure, as well as upgrades to existing installations.
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US figures still in decline
The latest US containerised import statistics reveal a 19.3% drop in the second quarter of 2009 compared with the same period last year, according to PIERS Trade Horizons.
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NewsSantos needs $5bn investment
The port of Santos needs investment of $5bn to prevent capacity restraints stifling economic growth, a recent study has concluded.
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Cargill terminal tender issued
The Dockworkers Company of the State of Sã o Paulo (Codesp) has issued a tender for the bulk solids terminal formally managed by Cargill, whose own contract expired in 2005, but was temporarily extended for four years. A new award is expected to be made by early November at the ...
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Private sector installed on Magdalena River in Colombia
Colombia will receive $62m over the next 30 years from private-sector companies operating seven river port concessions and 24 coastal port concessions along the Magdalena River.
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American Association of Port Authorities in Freight Stakeholders Coalition
The Freight Stakeholders Coalition, a group made up the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) and shipper and surface transport trade associations in the US, is seeking a unified approach to Federal transport funding.
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Manta still seeks private investor
Manta Port Authority is to transfer the shares held in Tide by HPH to another private company, now that HPH has pulled out of the deal.
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Concepción struggles to retain box traffic
The Argentinian port of Concepción is struggling to hang on to the container feeder service that has made calls for the last two years. The lack of dredging on the Uruguay River has called into question the retention of the service. Compounding the problem, Logisur, the handling company, is now ...
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Victoria to be expanded
The Espirito Santo Port Authority (Codesa) has published a tender in respect of the lengthening and expansion of berths 101 and 102 at the port of Victoria. Together with a previous dredging contract, investment of $134m is being made. By 2010, as a result of the work, capacity will have ...
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Chilean ports in the red
André s Rengifo, the director of Chile's Port Company Systems, has said that the country's public ports will all post negative figures in 2009.
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Libra to consolidate three terminals operation
Libra Terminais has presented proposals to the authorities to unify its two operational areas into a mega-terminal handling containers.
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APM plans Santos terminal
APM Terminals is to present a project to Santos Port Authority to operate a container terminal at Prainha in the Guarujá region of the port. It would require investment of $700m and include construction of 700 metres of quay to serve a terminal with a capacity of 1.2m teu.
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Cold ironing comes to Vancouver
Vancouver has become the third world port to introduce cold-ironing, which allows berthed vessels to make use of mains power supply when in port.
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Talking up Punta Colonet
Despite an effective suspension on the development of the Punta Colonet mega-port project in Mexico since April, the head of the Ministry of Communications and Transport, Juan Molinar Horcasitas, announced in August that the project is still effectively live.
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Puerto Rico
Concessioning of Puerto Rico''s Las Americas port (PLA) will go ahead, law firm Mayer Brown partner Joseph Seligman has said.
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NewsUS traffic down to 2002 levels
Figures released in the US suggest that the country''s ports will handle 12.3m teu in 2009, equivalent to an 18.8% year-on-year drop - the fewest containers handled since 2002.
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NewsPort Authority of New York and New Jersey Completes Preliminary Study of Bayonne Bridge
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ) has released results of a US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) analysis of the air-draft restricting Bayonne Bridge.
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NewsBrazil ports
Brazil''s Oderbrecht, an engineering and construction company, in partnership with Dubai-based ports operator DP World, has acquired a majority stake in a Brazilian port, Empresa Brasileira de Terminais Portuarios (Embraport) in Santos City, Sao Paulos state, media reports have said.
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NewsAttempts being made to halt LLX development
The Federal Public Ministry in Campos dos Goytacazes has put forward a legal injunction to prevent LLX from continuing with construction of a port complex at Aç u on the northern coast of Rio de Janeiro state.
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NewsNew decree could stunt new Brazilian development
Antaq, the Brazilian authority overseeing ports, has put forward a proposal that would fundamentally change legislation governing how private terminals handle third-party traffic.
