2009-07-30

São Paulo state port authority Codesp has awarded the tender to draw up a master plan for roadworks on the left bank of Santos port, next to Guarujá.   The winning consortium is formed by companies L...

2009-07-30

Mexican cement maker Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua's (GCC) (BMV: GCC) consolidated net income plummeted 33.5% and 50.6% in Q2 and H1 respectively, compared to the same periods last year, the company said in its quarterly results report.   Consolidated net income in Q2 fell to 238mn pesos (US$17...

2009-07-30

Authorities from Colombia's transport ministry Mintransporte, Antioquia department, Medellín city and local group ISA have signed a 5.6tn-peso (US$2.77bn) agreement to finance the department's Ruta de la Montaña highway project, the presidential website reported.   "The gov...

2009-07-30

Brazilian ports that specialize in agricultural exports should fare better than industrial export terminals throughout 2009, private port terminals association (ABTP) president Wilen Manteli told BNamericas   "Despite the financial crisis and the fact that some export sectors are reporti...

2009-07-30

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is planning to announce the second phase of the country's growth acceleration plan PAC in 2010, which is also election year, paper O Estado de S Paulo reported.   The government is currently preparing the new project portfolio that will be o...

2009-07-30

A total of US$1.55bn was invested in Peruvian transport infrastructure concessions in H1, of which US$1.14bn was invested in highways, according to public transport regulator Ositran.   HIGHWAYS   The consortium Conirsa, led by Brazil's Odebrecht, invested US$337mn in stretch 2 (Urcos-...

2009-07-28

Rio Grande port in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state posted record handling of 64,372 TEUs in June, up 30.9% from the same month last year, port management reported in a release.

2009-07-28

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) released its operational metrics for the third quarter of its fiscal year 2009, the authority said in a release.