Philippine-based port developer and regulator International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) has announced that it is allocating … (zambotimes) Source: zambotimes, January 22, 2012;
The port authority of Lazaro Cardenas has announced APM Terminals as the winner of its deepwater container terminal bid (TEC2), designed to attract private investment and operational efficiencies to the port. The award represents a 32 year concession of a greenfield site for the design, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of a new container terminal [...]
Chilean logistics firm SAAM aims to invest some US$23mn in a multi-use public terminal at Mexico’s Mazatlán port in west coast state Sinaloa… By Juan Andres Abarca (bnamericas) Source: bnamericas, November 25, 2011;
Van Oord‘s flexible fallpipe vessel (FFPV) Tertnes has been to the east coast of Mexico (Bay of Campeche) to execute subsea rock installation projects on pipelines and cables for various main contractors. The ultimate client is state oil and gas company PEMEX. FFPV vessel Tertnes was deployed to the Far East via the Panama Canal [...]
On September 6, China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd. (CHEC) and International Container Terminal Services SA signed the contract for Stage 1A of Phase 1 of the Manzanillo container terminal in Mexico. The project, in the form of EPC, with a contract value of $ 221 million, involves the construction of two 720-meter container berth coastlines, [...]
More than fifty exporters, importers and other trade and logistics professionals participated in a half-day Mexico Business Forum hosted by the Tampa Port Authority on May 26, 2011. Presentations by representatives from ProMexico, Enterprise Florida, US Commercial Service, Zim Integrated Shipping and the Ports of Veracruz, Altamira and Progreso provided a market update and [...]
A feared new oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico probably is a plume of silt from dredging on the Mississippi River, the U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday. Spokesman Henry Cambre told the Wall Street Journal the Coast Guard is testing the substance, which gives off a rainbow sheen resembling an oil spill. Test results [...]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District’s Operations Division and Environmental Branch are closely monitoring the Gulf of … (dvidshub) Source: dvidshub, February 10, 2011;
The new Tuxpan Port project involves the construction of a new green-field 51,520 m2 cargo terminal container facility with the capacity of… (cg-la) Source: cg-la, December 31, 2010;
The Mexican government will finally launch in 2011 the tender for construction of the long-delayed mega-port at Punta Colonet, on the … (bestshippingnews) Source: bestshippingnews, December 2, 2010;
