North America – Page 75

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    HPH woos Mexican hauliers

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    HPH, Mexico' s largest container terminal operator, is negotiating a strategic alliance with road haulage companies to improve its door-to-door service for customers.

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    Shadow cast on Punta Colonet project

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    Proposed expansions at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach could threaten the planned development of a new mega-port at Punta Colonet in Mexico' s Baja Californian region.

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    Talcahuano remedial need

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    The Chilean port of Talcahuano requires infrastructure and dredging rehabilitation work or risks closure within two years. A single port operator is expected to be appointed, with all contracts placed by the first quarter of 2008.

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    SSA invests in Tacoma

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    SSA Marine is to invest $300m in a new container terminal at East Blair Waterway in the port of Tacoma. 

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    Bolivian border port

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    The Bolivian government is to build a port terminal at Puerto Quijarro on the border with Brazil at a cost of $25.6m. This will enable Bolivian soya to access coastal ports via the Paraguay-Paraná inland waterway network. 

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    Manzanillo Port reaches saturation point

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    The port of Manzanillo in Mexico has reached virtual saturation point following a 20% hike in container traffic over the last few months. 

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    SAN VICENTE EXTENSION

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    San Vicente Terminal Internacional has been granted a 15-year extension to its container terminal concession at the Chilean port of the same name.The concession will now run for 30 years as from January 1, 2000. 

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    BRAZIL EYES EUROPEAN HUBS

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    A Brazilian engineer attached to Santos Port Authority (Codesp) is to visit 20 ports in Europe over the next four months to identify strategies that Brazil needs to adopt to develop major hub ports. 

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    ALINPORT STARTS POSORJA

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    The Spanish company Alinport has begun construction of the port of Posorja in Ecuador, which will occupy a 200,000 square metre area.Total cost is $450m.

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    SANTA CATARINA LEADS

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Santa Catarina, with investment of € 491m ($664.3m), is Brazil' s leading port this year in terms of private capital.Part of the money is being spent on constructing two new complexes, various terminals, on new equipment and modernising existing installations. In Brazil as a whole, € 1.4bn ($1.9bn) is being ...

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    PURETECH HALIFAX COUP

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Halifax Port Authority has awarded a wide-area surveillance contract to PureTech Systems.The technology will be installed under a C$8m (US$7.2m) contract.

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    Brazil offers trucker incentives

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Brazil has passed a federal law limiting the amount of time a truck driver has to wait before being attended to at the port of Rio Grande in a bid to prevent the hold-ups that plagued last year’ s bumper harvest. Now,if a truck driver has to wait more than ...

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    Mejillones in major refinancing

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Chile’ s Angamos Port, which is better known as Puerto Mejillones, is to undertake a $60.6m refinancing involving Corp Banca and BCI. 

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    Burden of bureaucracy

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Terminales Internacionales del Ecuador (TIDE) believes that there are bureaucratic obstacles in place that mean potential cargo is still being displaced to terminals in Guayaquil rather than going through its port of Manta. 

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    Pedregal port concession challenged

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    The governor of the Panamanian province of Chiriquí has asked Panama Maritime Authority to have another look at the concession awarded to a company in Pedregal port, which he believes has not stuck to agreed investment plans. 

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    ANTOFAGASTA AREA AVAILABLE

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Chile’ s Antofagasta Port Company is considering offering so-called “ Area C” to companies wishing to establish terminal operations in the port.

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    PUNTA COLONET SUPPORT

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    The Mexican Minero Lobos group has made public its decision to support the Punta Colonet port tender, which is being put together by the Transport Ministry.

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    PUGET EMISSIONS BENCHMARK

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    The Port of Tacoma, in cooperation with the Puget Sound Maritime Air Forum, has released a scientific study measuring maritime-related air emissions in Puget Sound.The inventory will form a baseline for future emissions comparisons.

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    Nine Santos terminals up for grabs

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Santos Port Authority is to put out to concession nine terminals by 2010. 

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    New Galveston hub plan

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    The Port Authority of Houston and Galveston has signed an agreement to build a new container terminal on Pelican Island, which is situated to the north of Galveston Island.