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News1 Nov 2009

Just as Argentina makes progress with a new, urgently needed container facility, local politicians have come up with a cargo tonnage tax. Fo...

News1 Aug 2008

International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has made a comeback in Argentina after securing a long-term concession for a new US$20...

News1 Jun 2005

Boskalis International has won a contract to deepen the Port of Buenos Aires’ South Canal, which links the main access channel with the Ex...

News1 Dec 2004

A new controversy has hit the Port of Buenos Aires after a Coast Guard (PNA) permit for a 243m long container vessel to call at Murchison’...

News1 Jun 2004

Incorrect tank cleaning operations at a container depot in Berisso near La Plata to the south of the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires cause...

News1 Mar 2004

After five successive years of declining container traffic, the Port of Buenos Aires rebounded spectacularly last year, posting a 17.6 per c...

News1 Feb 2003

The Argentine government is considering changes to the existing port privatisation laws which would allow any terminal operator at Puerto Nu...

News15 Mar 2002

Latin American economies grew more slowly last year than in 2000, probably no more than 0.5 per cent for the region as a whole compared to 4...

News1 Jan 2002

Terminales Portuarias Santafecinas (TPS), which has managed the Argentine port of Santa Fe since 1999, is seeking a "complete renegotiation"...

News13 Oct 2001

Faced with new regional competition, the Port of Buenos Aires has to develop as a logistics hub and offer value-added services to help attra...

News11 Oct 2001

Hamburg container terminal operator has taken a step beyond international port consultancy work into risk investments. HHLA International wa...

News2 Oct 2001

Things seem to be going from bad to worse at the river Port of Rosario in Argentina's Santa Fe province. Three members of the port authority...

News2 Oct 2001

Political analysts in Argentina say the Paraguay-Parana waterway has received a major boost from a high level agreement between Brazil and t...

News20 Sep 2001

Plans to concede operation of the Port of Rosario, in Argentina's Santa Fe province, to the SGA consortium led by the Spanish Port of Tarrag...

News16 Jul 2001

For the second year in succession Auto Terminal Zarate SA (ATZ), part of Murchison group in Argentina, has been named as a General Motors' p...