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News17 Nov 2022

South American container terminals are reporting calls from ever larger container vessels...

News19 Jun 2021

Last week the operator of Tecon Santos in Brazil exchanged 5,452 TEU with Maersk’s CAP SAN AUGUSTIN in 44 hours, with an average of 12...

News1 May 2014

A variety of ambitious companies are eager to join the upper echelons of the global terminal operating business over the coming decade....

News14 Nov 2012

The controlling shareholders of Santos Brasil, South America’s biggest container terminal group, are said to be close to agreeing a new ow...

News1 Oct 2011

The market for gate and crane OCR systems is currently booming and demand is particularly strong in Brazil. APS Technology Group has recentl...

News1 Oct 2011

Ports in Brazil will handle 5M TEU in 2011, up 10% over 2010, according to a forecast from Sérgio Salomão, president of the Brazilian Asso...

News1 Sep 2011

Santos Brasil SA Terminal is to deploy APS Technology process automation solutions delivered through the Navis Star Technology Alliance....

News18 May 2011

In 2010, ports in Brazil handled 833.9 Mt, according to information released by the National Waterways Transport Agency (Antaq). This repres...

News1 Nov 2010

International, as well as Brazil-based, port terminal operators are gearing up to bid for the right to operate a brand new port in Manaus, t...

News1 Sep 2010

A dispute over ownership has broken out between the two companies, Multi STS Participações and the Opportunity Fund, that control Brazil�...

News1 Mar 2010

Santos needs to “treble up” by 2024, says the Brazilian government, but existing operators fear lest expansion is too quick....

News1 Mar 2009

There is still plenty of drive behind major investment projects, which are restrained more by legal battles than the market....

News21 Feb 2009

The governing council of the Time of Service Guarantee Fund (FGTS), a Brazilian pension fund, has authorised the release of resources for th...

News1 Sep 2008

Land currently occupied by the Prainha and Conceiçãozinha favelas in Guarujá will not be cleared before 2010, according to the local mayo...

News1 May 2008

Plans to change the law and open up ports in Brazil to more private investment, including at new greenfield sites, have split the business c...