APMT buys stake in Ecuador terminal
NewsAPM Terminals (APMT) has acquired a 51% shareholding in Alinport SA, which is building a new deepwater container terminal in Ecuador, from t...
…shakes up Guayaquil
NewsContecon SA, the consortium put together by Philippine-based international terminal operator ICTSI to undertake management of Ecuador’s Po...
ICTSI wins Ecuador concession
NewsPhilippine port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has decided not to form a strategic alliance with Singapore...
ICTSI-PSA await Ecuador decision
NewsA consortium formed by Philippines port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) and Singapore’s PSA International w...
TIDE in at Manta
NewsThe Ecuadorian port of Manta has been formally handed over to Terminales Internacionales de Ecuador SA (TIDE), part of the Hutchison Port Ho...
Posorja for Alinport
NewsThe government of Ecuador has granted Spanish group Alianza Internacional Portuaria (Alinport) a concession to build and operate a new deepw...
HPH wins Manta…
NewsHutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has been granted a 30 year concession to develop and operate the Port of Manta, Ecuador....
Fertisa hunts boxes
NewsTerminal Portuario Fertisa (TPF) in the southern part of Guayaquil, Ecuador, has added a second berth and is now seeking to attract containe...
Guayaquil bananas
NewsThe Ecuadorian port of Guayaquil is planning to introduce a new area totally dedicated to handling and storing palletised banana exports....
Esmeraldas stalled
NewsThe Nuevo Milenio consortium's management and operations concession at the port of Esmeraldas in Ecuador, awarded in early February, has eff...
Bolivar awards
NewsThree of four contenders have pre-qualified for concessions at Ecuador's Puerto Bolivar Ecuaestivas and Marglobal Agunsa from Chile and Boan...
Esmeraldas concession
NewsThe northern Ecuadorian port of Esmeraldas should be in private hands by December 2, claims National Ports Authority APE....
S American port deals
NewsThe Chilean arm of Terranova Internacional plans to build, manage and operate a new terminal on the River Orinoco in Macapaima province, Ven...
Puerto Bolivar to be privatised
NewsPuerto Bolivar, South America's principal banana exporting port, is to be privatised before the end of the year under plans laid out by the ...
Worshipping false gods?
NewsIdeas that ports on the South American west coast could become transhipment hubs are �almost certainly not realistic�...