Santos to triple box capacity

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Annual handling capacity at Brazil’s Port of Santos, South America’s largest gateway, will increase from 3M TEU to 9M TEU by 2014, Ports...

Santos plans ahead

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

Navis wins Santos deal

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Navis, a Zebra Technologies company, has won a contract to replace the in-house terminal operating system (TOS) at the Santos Brasil termina...

Row highlights dynamism of ports sector

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The dispute over Brazil’s latest container terminal start-up underscores the point that this sector is worth fighting over, but the outcom...

New terminal for Santos

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Brazil’s leading port of Santos will have a new multi-purpose terminal, to be called Brasil Terminal SA, within the next five years and it...

Sepetiba looking up

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South America’s potential hub container port of the future, Sepetiba, has just pulled in new business which, on its own, will more than do...

Santos’ auto present

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In a surprise move, Santos Brasil has been appointed temporary operator of a car terminal in Santos, and will prepare the way for the export...

Mixed bag in South America

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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...

Tecon on the up

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Throughput at the Tecon container terminal in Santos, Brazil, passed the 300,000 TEU mark for the first time last year. A total of 218,741 u...

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