North America – Page 60

  • Port Strategy: Could the Mexican mega-project have fallen victim to the financial meltdown?
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    Punta Colonet document delay

    2009-04-24T12:24:00Z

    No tender documents or bidding rules for the new Punta Colonet port in Mexico are now expected to be issued until early next year.

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    K Line scoops green award again

    2009-04-23T12:24:00Z

    Shipping line and operator K Line has been awarded the coveted Green Flag Award by the Port of Long Beach for the fourth consecutive year for its contribution to environmental conservation in 2008.

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    CPP to buy Virginia port assets

    2009-04-17T12:24:00Z

    US company CenterPoint Properties, which is heavily involved in property and infrastructure investment, has put forward an offer to acquire the port activities of Virginia Port Authority, which owns Virginia International Terminals that in turn operates Norfolk International Terminal, Portsmouth Marine Terminal and Newport News Marine Terminal, in addition to ...

  • Port Strategy: Paita secures suitor
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    Peru ports decision

    2009-04-14T12:24:00Z

    Terminales Portuarios Euroandinos, a  Peruvian-Portuguese consortium, has signed a deal valued at $227m to modernise Peru''s northern port of Paita, going well beyond the government-set minimum.

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    Santos box losses feared

    2009-04-13T12:24:00Z

    The Brazilian Chamber of Containers has warned that the port of Santos may lose up to 45,000 teu this year because the port''s customs authority''s has suspended customs clearance for rail-borne containers handled by the Libra group at its Ponta de Praia terminal. By forcing this box traffic to shift ...

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    Big and green Savannah

    2009-04-10T12:24:00Z

    Four new super post-panamax cranes have arrived at the Port of Savannah, Georgia, on board Dockwise''s Tern, a specially constructed heavy-lift vessel.

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    New Peruvian transhipment hub mooted

    2009-04-09T12:24:00Z

    With just one container transhipment hub on the Pacific coast of Latin America - Panama''s Balboa - the Romero group has put forward a proposal for a major new regional hub at Ancó n, in Peru.

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    Nova Scotia ditches Halifax gateway plan

    2009-04-06T12:24:00Z

    Nova Scotia has dropped a proposed joint Port of Halifax and Canadian National Railway (CN) gateway project on the back of high costs.

  • Port Strategy: Flooding at Itajai dampened Brazilian throughput figures
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    Volume wobbles in Brazil

    2009-04-05T12:24:00Z

    Traffic reports for various ports and terminals in Brazil reveal a mixed bag.

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    APM keen on Itajaí expansion?

    2009-04-03T12:24:00Z

    APM Terminals, which operates the Teconvi box facility at the Brazilian port of Itajaí , has indicated that it is interested in bidding for the area of the port where operations are currently undertaken by the municipality. However, this would give Teconvi a monopoly over container handling, which might count ...

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    ICTSI's Ecuador inauguration

    2009-04-02T12:24:00Z

    ICTSI''s Ecuador unit has inaugurated three new quay cranes and eight rubber-tyred gantries at its Guayaquil facility. Hailed by the operator as the "most modern containerised cargo handling equipment in the country", the cranes are the first of their kind to be used in Ecuadorian port operations.

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    Manta

    2009-04-01T12:24:00Z

    Manta port authority APM is analysing a number of alternatives to continue the development of the port, APM president Lucí a Ferná ndez has said amid press reports suggesting Chinese, Spanish and Venezuelan firms are interested in its re-concessioning.

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    Traffic downturn widespread across US

    2009-04-01T12:24:00Z

    US container ports on both coasts are acutely suffering from major downturns in traffic.

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    Oakland concession granted

    2009-04-01T12:24:00Z

    Ports America beat off the competition to win a 50-year concession for five container terminals at the US Port of Oakland.

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    New York/New Jersey's flat figures

    2009-03-30T12:24:00Z

    Year-end throughput figures for the US Port of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) make ugly, albeit expected, reading reporting flat growth in container activity for the first time since 1993.

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    Monty's transhipping its way forward

    2009-03-26T12:24:00Z

    Another heavyweight contender for a spot in the hub port ring of East Coast South America is Montevideo, where Belgian terminal operating company Katoen Natie is already making its mark with the Terminal Cuenca de la Plata (TCP) facility.

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    Even more Brazil photos

    2009-03-25T12:24:00Z

    Many Brazilian port watchers are fearful for the future of the Sepetiba Tecon box terminal once the Hamburg Sud facility opens at Itapoa - probably in around the first quarter of 2010.

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    Chavez seizes ports

    2009-03-25T12:24:00Z

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced the central government will retake the administration of the country''s ports and airports from state governments, in a move which has generated fierce controversy in the South American country.

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    The big ships are coming: but where will they go?

    2009-03-24T12:24:00Z

    Ports on South America''s East Coast are vying for the undivided attention of the lines,as Rob Ward finds out

  • Port Strategy: Hutchison has abandoned its Manta hub dream
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    HPH abandons Manta and $20m investment

    2009-03-18T12:24:00Z

    Hutchison Port Holdings has walked away from the $525m Manta container terminal (TIDE) facility in Ecuador after investing an estimated $20m in the project.