Aliança has unveiled its new container ship, Sebastião Caboto, at the Terminal Maritimo de Passageiros in Brazil’s Port of Santos.
South American Ports
News & Analysis
07 May 2013
Terminales Rio de la Plata in Buenos Aires has placed an order for the extension of booms on two quay cranes from Kalmar, part of Cargotec.
12 Apr 2013
Grup TCB will operate the new TCQ terminal at Puerto Quetzal in Guatemala for the next 25 years with an option to renew the contract.
11 Apr 2013
Boskalis Westminster, the Dutch dredging and marine services group, and Chile’s Sudamericana Agencias Aereas y Maritimas
09 Apr 2013
Nearly all stevedores from ports in Chile are back at work, following a port strike that halted labor activities and delayed shipments of copper, fruit and wood pulp, ABC News reports.
04 Apr 2013
Dock workers at the Port of Lirquen in Chile are continuing to strike, according to Hapag-Lloyd.
27 Mar 2013
Hamburg Süd has reinstated La Guaira, Venezuela, as a direct call on its weekly Florida-ABC Islands/Venezuela service, which connects Florida, Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao and Venezuela.
08 Mar 2013
Bolivariana de Puertos, Venezuela’s government-owned port operator, has ordered a large amount of port equipment from Cargotec’s Kalmar.
26 Feb 2013
Brazilian port workers have agreed to delay their planned strike until March 15 to negotiate with government changes in MP (provisional measure) Ports.
26 Feb 2013
Brazilian firm Triunfo Participações e Investimentos reported container traffic in January was 49,414 20-foot-equivalent units, increasing 9.6 percent year-over-year from 45,102 TEUs.
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