South America – Page 38
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Brazil looks to pension funds to invest in ports
The Brazilian government is looking into ways of stimulating investment in national infrastructure by private pension funds. In the coming weeks, two proposals will be debated: the creation of a fund specifically to invest in investment and changes to rules governing this type of action.
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Paita to issue bonds
Terminales Portuarios Euroandinos Paita, operator and concessionaire for the Peruvian port of Paita, is to issue bonds worth $110m to build a new terminal.
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NewsSecurity scanning in Colombia
A number of American operations are seen "a vast improvement in security" through reducing errors associated with manually entered container data.
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NewsAPMT seals Moin concession deal
APM Terminals has passed the final hurdle for its Moin Container Terminal concession, gaining the final endorsement from Costa Rica’s Comptroller General Office in March.
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Peru to handle 2m teu by 2014
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
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
The Brazilian government is looking at the possibility of privatising national ports.
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Canal expansion faces seven-month delay
The design and construction contract to build the third set of locks for the Panama canal is to suffer a seven-month delay.
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NewsAPMT Callao investment assured
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
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
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%
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
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
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.
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NewsComplaints mount over Açu super port project
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
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.
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NewsOfficials summoned over Callao debacle
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
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
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
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.
