North America – Page 64
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Limón concession desperately needed to boost efficiency
Costa Rica''s Atlantic Port Authority (Japdeva) is seeking to implement privatisation of Limón Port by the end of the current year to improve the short term outlook for the port.
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Delay in El Salvador privatisation
A two-month delay in privatising El Salvador''s La Unión-Acajutla port system, after one of the parties in the ruling coalition raised serious objections to bidding rules, has pushed the tender back to mid-October.
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Buenos Aires concessions to be lengthened
Argentina''s General Ports Administration has confirmed that, with government support, it is prepared to extend concession periods of port terminals in the so-called Puerto Nuevo district of Buenos Aires.
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Construction has begun on a new dedicated container terminal in Buenaventura Bay, close to the existing facilities in Colombia.
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Callao will reach capacity limit in 2010
Lima''s chamber of commerce has warned that Callao port will reach full capacity by 2010 and that investment in alternative outlets such as Paita and Pisco must be speeded up to help manage traffic. Even a new development being funded by DP World is still seen as insufficient to cater ...
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South American trade body in offing
A formal invitation to set up a regional trade body for private port companies throughout South America was made at the TOC Market Briefing in Guayaquil September 17.
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NewsValparaiso contractor questions delay project
A major overhaul of Valparaí so port facilities will be delayed until 2009, due to uncertainty over current contractor Von Appen''s future participation in the process.
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US West Coast box decline
In the first seven months, container traffic at the port of Seattle was down 8% to 1.02bn teu. At Los Angeles and Long Beach, there were downturns of 6.1% and 9.4% respectively to 4.5m teu and 3.7m teu.
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NewsGeorgia Ports move on identity cards
Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has confirmed it will require all workers at the ports of Savannah and Brunswick to hold Transportation Worker Identification Credentials (TWIC) from as early as December 2008.
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Paraguay favours roads
Paraguay says it is evaluating investment in its river port infrastructure. However its main focus will be on upgrading road infrastructure to improve access to and from the ports.
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NewsLibra Terminais
Santos terminal Libra Terminais is capitalising on Brazilian throughput that has grown beyond all expectations, as Alex Hughes finds out
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Equipment stock take
In terms of equipment, Grupo''s Libra''s Terminal 37 in Santos, which covers an area of 371,000 sq m, has seven quayside gantry cranes deployed along its 1,100 metre long quay. The two most recent are also the biggest.
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Santos capacity boost
Santos is to open four further container berths to boost capacity from 3m teu to 4m teu. The $515m project will involve an area of 541,000 su m and be eligible for a grant of $66.5m under Brazil''s national Accelerated Investment Programme.
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NewsPunta Colonet threatened by land dispute
In an early blow to its ambitious megaport programme at Punta Colonet, Mexico''s federal government will have to negotiate with Mexican mining group GML to resolve land disputes related to the $4.86bn multimodal port project in Baja California state, maritime expert Juan Carlos Merodio has said.
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Green steel terminal
Brazil''s National Steel Company is to open its own private terminal in the Port of Suape, which will handle 2m tonnes of cargo annually. The facility will be uniquely self-sufficient in electricity production.
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Payout for Manzanillo
The Euro Oslo container vessel that crashed into Quay 3 at Colon container terminal in Manzanillo Bay in Panama has agreed to pay $10m in compensation to the Port Company.
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Buenaventura terminal
The Colombian port of Buenaventura has begun construction of a dedicated container terminal, TCBUEN, which will occupy a 164,000 sq m area on the banks of the river Aguacate, some 2.4 kilometres from existing installations operated by SPRBUN.
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North east cash injection
The Modernisation and Revitalisation Department of Brazil''s Ports Secretariat has confirmed that ports in the North East of the country are going to receive major investment to fund large modernisation projects.
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Peru concession typo
The Peruvian government has reduced planned concession periods for port terminal operators from 60 years down to 30 years, blaming a typing error for the initial published figure.
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Brazil's ports industry in flux
The Brazilian Public Container Terminal Users Association (Abratec) is questioning the legality of having a private container terminal, Portonave, in the port of Navegantes, compete with the Port of Itajaí Container Terminal (Teconvi), which is a publicly owned facility.
