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Business & Finance, Project & Tenders
The Chilean company Empresa Portuaria San Antonio has awarded SENER the optimization engineering and the detailed design of protection works, dredging and complementary work of the Outer Port – Puerto de Gran Escala (PGE) – in the Port of San Antonio, 100 km from Santiago de Chile. This is the fourth port project that SENER has developed in Chile in recent […]
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The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) celebrated last week the 24th edition of its annual Latin American Congress of Ports in Arica, Chile. Continuing to strengthen its status as the premier port conference in Latin America, the Congress gathered from November 30th to December 3rd over 300 delegates from 20 countries in Arica. With […]
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The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), along with the Port of Arica, will host the biggest port event in the last 20 years in Chile this week, gathering together Chilean ports and the most important port terminals from Latin America, USA and the Caribbean. EPA’s President, Francisco Javier González, highlighted the relevance of this Congress ( […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology
The new DRAGFLOW Amphibious Dredger (DRM85/160E22) was sold by their Chilean distributor Jacol to a mining company based in the north of Chile. The machine will work in a tailing pond near a mine in the Atacama Desert. The purpose of this project is to pump back to the mine and to reprocess the old […]
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The Latin American Delegation of the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) is working on the newest edition of the Latin American Congress of Ports that will take place in the city of Arica, Chile, from November 30th through December 3rd this year. Every year more than 400 port leaders and international experts make this […]
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A Chilean Delegation led by His Excellency, Ambassador Eduardo Bonilla Menchaca, Chile’s Ambassador to Jamaica and Permanent Representative to the International Seabed Authority made a two-day visit to the ISA Secretariat on Wednesday and Thursday, 15th and 16th October 2014. Ambassador Bonilla Menchaca was accompanied by Captain Fernando J. Mingram of the Armada de Chile, […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology
In an event that gathered the main regional authorities, Angel Cabrera, president of Chilean port company Empresa Portuaria Iquique (EPI) -Iquique’s port authority-, and Alfredo Leiton, general manager, officially launched the Port Iquique Terminal 1 tender process. This project includes important expansion works, such as the construction of a third berthing facility or the amplification […]
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According to portstrategy.com, the Chilean government has proposed construction of a new port that will serve the country’s Fifth region. Fifth region is already home to both San Antonio and Valparaiso ports, as well as the capital city of Santiago. Portstrategy.com reports that the location of the port is yet to be decided, but could […]
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Puerto Coronel plans to invest almost $100 million in 2013-2014, in expanding existing installations. The majority of this investment will be spent on lengthening the existing container terminal. Work is due to be completed by 2015. Puerto de Coronel is a private port of public usage and has become the most important multipurpose port in […]
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Puerto Central, a unit of Chilean port company Puerto Lirquén, which operates Costanera Espigón terminal at San Antonio port in Chile, … (portnews) [mappress] Source: portnews, November 15, 2011;
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Creating an efficient logistics chain and support network is one of the main challenges facing Chile’s port development, transport undersecr… By Juan Andres Abarca (bnamericas) [mappress] Source: bnamericas, October 27, 2011
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Expanding on its successful, proven ROTOMITE dredge line, SRS Crisafulli has completed an electric, manned dredge with a cast, abrasion-resistant GIW pump. This dredge unit, referred to as the R6CE, was built for an international customer, a hydro-electric generating station in the Country of Chile. Charles M. Nichols, Director of Manufacturing and lead product designer, […]
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Chilean firm OMX Operaciones Marítimas, a subsidiary of Brazil’s EBX group, expects to begin construction on its Puerto Castilla… (bnamericas) [mappress] Source: bnamericas, June 29, 2011;
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Liquid Waste Technology (LWT) has delivered and installed its new remote controlled diesel powered Mud Cat™ dredge to the Minera… (wastewaterpr) [mappress] Source: wastewaterpr, March 28, 2011
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Gottwald Port Technology GmbH (Gottwald), a subsidiary of Demag Cranes AG, has a contract to supply a mobile harbor crane G HMK 8410 to get the port Angamos, Mejillones, Chile. The crane Generation 5 (Model 8), the largest mobile harbor crane Gottwald be for container handling in the Americas. The G HMK 8410, it will […]
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MPX Energia S.A. and MMX Mineração e Metálicos S.A. announced today that the Comisión Regional de Medio Ambiente (COREMA) of the Atacama Region in Chile has authorized the construction of a new port (“Port” or “Project”), located 80 km to the southwest of the city of Copiapó. The Port is licensed to OMX Operaciones Marítimas, an EBX Group company. The […]
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The Chilean Molymet group, a multinational in the metal and steel sector, is to invest 14 million euros in its Ghent outfit Sadaci, it was… (mediargus) [mappress] Source: mediargus, November 9, 2010;
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Chilean government has announced a USD 400 million investment for port infrastructure that is to be upgraded during 2010 to 2013 complementing the private sector investments of USD 340 million done so far till 2008.Chile, which has a great potential of developing tourism and cruise industry along side its sea link… [mappress] Source:commodityonline,March 24,2010;
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As part of San Antonio Port’s expansion plans, a cross-organisational team has presented its final report assessing the structural stability and port operability of the proposed new outer breakwater in Chile. The report was the result of more than a year’s partnership between HR Wallingford and Instituto Nacional de Hidráulica Chile (INH). Together they built […]
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Watermaster has just released this amazing video from the recently completed Cellulose Aeration Lagoon Dredging Project in Chile. Under the scheme, a pulp mill development and expansion project required the removal of more than 120,000m³ of organic sludge from an aeration lagoon of the effluent plant. The mud had to be captured in geo-synthetic […]
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The Water Institute of the Gulf and Nicholls State University have signed a memorandum of understanding that outlines increased collaborations on projects ranging from coastal protection and restoration to disaster risk reduction and nature-based flood defense. “The great challenges facing Louisiana and coastal areas around the world require an immense amount of research and action […]
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Business & Finance, Project & Tenders
HR Wallingford is to undertake physical modelling studies for a major breakwater which forms part of the proposed port expansion of San Antonio, Chile. According to the company, the recently awarded Outer Port project – known as the Puerto de Gran Escala (PGE) – represents a major expansion of the existing port infrastructure of San […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology
An international research project led by the University of Bath is investigating the impact of waves on coastlines using novel laser measurement devices. The equipment is similar to laser measurement devices used in construction, except it is able to measure 37,500 points a second. This capability means these ‘Lidar’ devices are able to scan each […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology
As part of the plan to become one of the largest container terminals in Chile, Puerto Central S.A (PCE) in San Antonio is building a new multipurpose terminal with a 15m draft, allowing the port to handle Post-Panamax ships. Regarding this, Kalmar, part of Cargotec, said that they have received an order from PCE for […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology
China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), a company engaged in the design and construction of transportation infrastructure, dredging and heavy machinery manufacturing business, has signed a $44 million contract for extension of San Antonio Terminal in Valparaiso, Chile. The project involves construction of 430m steel sheet piles of Berth 2, extension of the 130m terminal in […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology
Coda Octopus Echoscope® Real-Time 3D sonar has been selected by Vale S.A. to produce dynamic underwater surveys during construction operations on the North Berth of Pier IV at the Ponta da Madeira Maritime Terminal in Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil. Vale S.A. is a global mining company with headquarters in Brazil and operations in over 30 […]
