Service boosts for SAAM
NewsSAAM-operated Terminal Portuario Guayaquil and Florida International Terminal in Port Everglades have gained new services from MSC and Hapag...
Crane OCR first in Guayaquil
NewsICTSI subsidiary Contecon Guayaquil SA in Ecuador (CGSA) claims to be the first terminal in Latin America to implement crane OCR technology...
First conductor bar RTG in South America
NewsConductix-Wampfler recently completed what it claims is the first conductor bar system in South America for electric RTGs, in Guayaquil...
TIDE recedes at Manta
NewsTIDE, the Hutchison Port Holdings affiliate set up to develop and run a US$525M container terminal at the Ecuadorian Port of Manta, will sho...
ICTSI adds new gear to Guayaquil terminal
NewsContecon Guayaquil SA (CGSA), wholly-owned by International Container Terminal Services, Inc (ICTSI), has introduced two new harbour mobile ...
…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...
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....
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...
Worshipping false gods?
NewsIdeas that ports on the South American west coast could become transhipment hubs are �almost certainly not realistic�...