Companhia Docas do Pará (CDP), Northern Brazil’s Pará state dock company, has announced that it will issue a US$44 million tender for the Port of Belém’s Teconbel container terminal this year.
The planned fourth container terminal at Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) could be subject to further delays after the members of the consortium, which was awarded the project, announced that they have parted company.
APM Terminals has announced that it has received final endorsement from Costa Rica’s Comptroller General Office for its Moin Container Terminal (TCM) Concession Agreement with the Cost Rican government.
Iraq is set to invite bids for the construction of a breakwater in the Gulf, as part of the first phase of the country’s plans of building a $6 billion mega port.
Israel Ports Development & Assets Company Ltd. (IPC) and India's Cargo Motors Pvt Ltd. (CMPL) have announced that they are to launch a joint bid for the development of a new car terminal at the Port of Chennai in southern India.
The Port of Long Beach has reached a tentative US$4.6 billion agreement with Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) for the 40-year lease of its planned new container terminal.
APM Terminals officially takes control over the container terminal at the Port of Gothenburg today. The terminal operating company, Skandia Container Terminal AB, has now been renamed APM Terminals Gothenburg AB in a bid to to capitalize on the worldwide recognition of the APM Terminals Global Port, Terminal and Inland Services Network.
The Omani Port of Sohar has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an international logistics service provider to operate the new Dry Bulk Terminal, which is currently under construction. An initial agreement has been signed paving the way for an official accord before the year is out, according to the Oman Daily Observer.
The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has signed an agreement with Aitken Spence and China Merchants Holding (International) to construct the first container terminal at the new deepwater port to be built next to the Port of Colombo.
Two major Russian terminal operators are competing in the tender for the construction and operation of the new Tank terminal Europoort West (TEW), at the Port of Rotterdam. Results of the process are expected to be announced later this month.
The Sydney Ports Corp-owned Botany Bay Port is set to become privatized after the New South Wales (NSW) state government announced details of a 99-year lease for the facility. The tender, expected to be completed in the first half of 2013, will be part of a refinancing package that is hoped will provide funds for future port infrastructure projects.
APM Terminals has agreed a $992 million contract for the build and operation of the new Moin Container Terminal (TCM) in Costa Rica.