1. January-April 2011
Year 3, No. 1
The Book of the Minister of Ports of Brazil
ALogisticsAnalysis of Brazilian Ports
MUCH TO SAIL:
LATINPORTS PRESENT AT PORT
FINANCE INTERNATIONAL BRAZIL IN
JUNE
SUPER-PORT OF AҪU, BRAZIL IN THE
TOP 10 OF INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS
HUTCHISON GROUP ENTERS
LATINPORTS THROUGH ITS MEXICAN
AFFILIATES
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2. CONTENTS
January
April
2011
The Book of the
Minister of Ports of
Brazil: Much to Sail:
ALogisticsAnalysis of
Brazilian Ports
Latinports present
at Port Finance
International Brazil in
June
Super-Port ofAҫu,
Brazil in The Top 10 of
Infrastructure Works
Hutchison Group
Enters Latinports
through its Mexican
affiliates
New Sustaining
Members
News of Latin
American Ports
Training
Mail
Editorial
Cover
Gantry Cranes at the Container
Port Terminal Lázaro Cárdenas,
Mexico
Layout and Design
Julian Pineda
www.miroamarillo.com
studio@miroamarillo.com

3. SEditorial
January-April 2011
2011 started specifically prolific for Latinports.
The Hutchison Group, the largest port operator worldwide
formally entered through its Latin American affiliate in Mexico, and new
sustaining members incorporated from the United States and Europe.
Besides, we have been invited to participate as lecturer in representation
of the Latin American port sector in a number of important regional and
global events: TOC Asia in Tianjin, Euromoney Seminars in Miami, Andean
Infrastructure Summit in Bogotá and Argus Americas Coal Summit in New
Orleans (averaging a monthly conference), although because of agenda
problems we had to apologize for not being able to attend the first two
conferences. In May and June we will give our support to the XII Congress
of Ports of Brazil and the Port Finance Infrastructure Brazil, this last event
where the executive director of Latinports will make a presentation on the
Declaration of Brasilia 2010: Evaluation and Perspectives of the Port System in the
Region. We then will start organizing our association’s specialized seminars
starting with the so-called Navigation and Flood Control on the Magdalena River, to
be held in July in Bogotá, supported by the Colombian Logistics Association,
which will be the first of a series of seminars that will be developed every
year, in a series of countries, on different port activity topics.
In view of the great impetus the association has had, at the end of February
the executive director met in Rio de Janeiro with the chairman of the
executive committee, Richard Klien, in order to plan a hectic 2011 and
consolidate the achievements obtained for our next great annual event,
which will be held in Bogotá in October, jointly with the Superintendence
of Ports and Transportation of Colombia. During this trip the executive
director of the association had also the opportunity to meet with the former
minister of ports, Pedro Brito (candidate to director of the National Agency
of Waterway Transportation, Antaq) who stated his satisfaction with the
work developed by Latinports and reiterated all its support.
This acknowledgment from the port and infrastructure sector to Latinports
fills us with pride and obliges us to be ever more proactive in favor of its
strengthening in Latin America, and for this reason as of this edition we will
present the new image of the bulletin, more modern and functional, so our
members are kept permanently informed of the evolution of ports in our
region.
Unitl next time!
jpalacio@latinports.org
www.latinports.org
Julian Palacio
Executive Director

4. The Book of the Minister of Ports of Brazil
MUCH TO SAIL:ALogisticsAnalysis of
Brazilian Ports
With the inscription “With appreciation and
great admiration for your work”, former minister,
Pedro Brito, delivered to the executive director of Latinports the book
written and published before the end of his outstanding management,
that concluded with the government of President Lula on December
31st, 2010. As was well noted in the preface of the book by the legendary
former minister of finance, Antonio Delfim Netto (responsible of the so-
called “Brazilian economic miracle” of the past decades), “the title is rather
modest, as its analysis is not restricted to the port systems, but goes beyond,
and in reality totally and extensively handles the logistics problems of the
entire Brazilian physical infrastructure, involving seaports and their access,
the insignificant use of waterways navigation for the transportation of
cargo, the lack of a minimum coordination for planning road and railroad
networks, and the expansion of the airport system”… that, we add, are in
general the same within all Latin America, thus the book acquires a regional
importance.
This corroborates that expressed by former minister Antonio Delfim
Netto, the fact that the book starts with a chapter called “Logistics: The Key
Word” and that, in a declaration of an advanced and unusual openness,
beyond politics, minister Pedro Brito dared suggesting that the Secretary’s
Office of Ports started and developed by him, transforms in the Ministry
of Logistics, as this area is divided among several ministries “which does not
seem sensible”.
Pedro Brito
Minister of Ports of
Brazil 2007-2010
January-April 2011

5. Below you will find some sentences of the book that
will make the Latin American port sector think:
Logistics: The Key Word:
- In almost all Europe there are logistics centers
in which railways, roads and mainly waterways
connect, and cargos are redistributed according to
their destination, for export or distribution to the
internal market, harmonically, as a well- assembled
orchestra.
- By itself, a port makes no sense if it is not part
of a network, a chain, a system.
Ever Greater Vessels:
Regulatory Framework:
- When investment is consistently being done in
infrastructure, in improving and building causeways,
railways, ports and waterways, foundations are
naturally created enabling, at once, the development
of integrated systems and the application of logistics
intelligence and the network concept that leading
countries are already adopting.
- …the entrepreneur only invests its money if
it is entirely convinced that legislation and rules are
fully consistent and lasting… Investment in ports
is always a long-term bet, something within a five-
decade horizon.
Institutional Roots:
- We must overcome our historical tendency of
valuating more form than contents, superimposing
means to ends, privileging the process and not the
objective.
“…And Nobody Died”:
- My objective conscience is that there is no way
of building a 100% efficient structure if there is no
technical team formed by qualified professionals
based on an executive point of view based on
training and specialized in the sector.
- I remember well an observation of Dilma
Rousseff, then Minister of the Civil House (today
President of the Republic), who gave us great
support in the project of only establishing technical
teams. After the process was concluded and changes
were consolidated, she said: ‘You established your
teams based only on technical criteria, without
yielding to political pressures, and nobody died.’
- The ‘Emma Maersk’ (the largest container carrier
of the world that may transport between 13,000 and 15,000
TEUs), does not arrive at South American ports
not because of the limitations of our ports, but
above all for a matter of global logistics, that flows
predominantly in an east-west sense, in the Asia-
Europe-United States hub. North-south flows are
supplementary and have a restricted participation in
the global trade of container transportation.
- Each port must be prepared for demanding
vessels and not for the eventuality of receiving once
a year a 15,000 TEU vessel as the ‘Emma Maersk’.
The size of the largest vessel to be required by the
port of Santos, that is the largest Latin American
port, will be the Super Post Panamax, a Santa type
of the German shipper Hamburg-Süd, with 8,600
TEUs, and for this are being prepared the Brazilian
ports.
January-April 2011

6. - I am absolutely certain that good results
obtained during the first three years of work of
the Secretary’s Office of Ports must give credit to
the possibility we had of arranging technical teams,
without political interference.
A New Logistics Matrix:
- In Europe and other parts of the world,
waterway transportation is even more important
than road transportation, and we must think in
making this transformation in Brazil, where road
transportation has a greater weight despite being
more expensive and more contaminating… This
involves changes in the transportation matrix that
will increase efficiency, decrease logistics prices and
be less contaminating for the environment, both
with the railroad as with the waterways. It is clear that
a large investment must be done for this to become
a reality, but there is no other way, and the social and
economic benefits will compensate this.
Removing Obstacles:
- When will the operator feel encouraged to
install larger and more modern equipment? When
the port, as of its infrastructure point of view,
justifies this investment (dredging and access to
ports – railways, roads and waterways – among
other).
- The Secretary’s Office of Ports promoted
the dredging concept according to results, which
means the company that is awarded the tender for
deepening the dredging will have the contractual
responsibility of taking care of its maintenance for
a term of up to six years… That is, deepening and
maintenance at the same time are facts, and this
will guarantee that the depth is maintained for the
following years by means of a unique tender and a
unique contract.
- Another important legal change allowed the
participation of international firms in dredging
tenders, which was not possible before. Marketing
does not limit to works at public seaports, as
waterways must be dredged…
- One of the main challenges imposed to the
Secretary’s Office of Ports was the definition of
priorities, considering the inevitable limitation of
resources and the need to recover lost time. We then
started with what was more urgent, the obstacles
that impeded the development of the Brazilian port
sector, independent from the medium- and long-
term planning we were starting to develop. In port
logic there is a clear concept: when one obstacle is
eliminated, another one appears, that is, a queue of
obstacles exists.
January-April 2011

8. In Short, Planning Carried Forward:
- It is possible that the greatest legacy the
Secretary’s Office of Ports has given the country in
its first three years of operation is long-term strategic
planning. The goal imposed on its technicians was
challenging: thinking how the Brazilian ports should
be in the next 20 years, based on the objective
demands of the country’s economy and the interests
of society… In response to this demand, the
Secretary’s Office of Ports decided to prepare the
National Plan for Port Logistics for the next two
decades.
- Worth mentioning is another study for the
Project of Access to the port of Santos, which today
is congested by the circulation of almost 15,000
trucks per day. It is absolutely unthinkable to triple
this flow to 45,000 trucks based on same access
Unblocking Frontiers and Investigating
Opportunities in the Ports of Brazil
With the support of Latinports, the Brazilian
Association of Port Terminals and United Kingdom
Trade & Investment, this two-day conference will
present a deep understating of innovative financial
solutions and the practical advice around the
challenges and opportunities in the dynamic sector
of Brazilian ports. Industry experts will center in
the ports of Brazil and on their expansion and
development plans, while investigating growth and
investment opportunities – and paying attention to
challenges and risks.
Attendance expected is of 150 delegates from ports
and related sectors. Besides, it will be an excellent
opportunity to get to know potential enterprise
and business partners such as government officials,
senior executives from port authorities, port and
terminal operators, and the legal and banking
industry, involved either in investing in ports or in
providing investments.
The executive director of Latinports, Julián
Palacio, will present a conference on the
Evaluation and Perspectives of the Port System
in the Region, based on the conclusions of the
Declaration of Brasilia 2010.
conditions. It is therefore urgent to change the
access matrix to the Port of Santos, reducing the
presence of trucks and increasing the participation
of other transportation systems, mainly waterways,
duct routes, and railways, and above all, with the
creation of logistics platforms outside the port.
Then, in the case of Santos, access will be the great
obstacle in the immediate future.
- Lack of planning in the past obstructed the
development of the Brazilian port sector. Today,
Brazil has implanted an unprecedented planning
system for the medium- and long-term that, in a
coordinate, integrated and harmonious manner
with a series of other orders will represent a gain in
logistics efficiency that the country needs to conquer
in order to compete in equal conditions with the best
ports of the world.
Latinports Present in Port Finance
International Brazil in June
January-April 2011

9. Lecturers will also be, among many others:
• Fernando Fialho, Director General, National
Agency of Waterway Transportation – Antaq
• Sérgio Paulo Perrucci de Aquino, City Secretary of
Port and Maritime Affairs, Santos
• João Emilio Freire Filho, Adviser to the Board,
Associação Brasileira dos Terminais Portuários
• Walter Kemmsies, Chief Economist, Moffatt &
Nichol
• Michel Donner, Port & Maritime Consultant
(formerly World Bank)
• Robert Grantham, Commercial Director, Port of
Itajai
According to the firm Competitiveness Group Long
Term Assets, contracted by the magazine América
Economía, the port of Açu, with an investment of
US$5,500 million (similar to the expansion of the
Panama Canal), is ranked seventh among the main
infrastructure works in the region. Located in the
municipality of São João da Barra, in the northern
region of the state of Rio de Janeiro, the Super-port
Açu, of the EBX group, is a private, public use port
terminal, which stands out as the largest investment
in port infrastructure of the Americas.
In its construction phase, the development will have
up to 30 locations for the movement of products
such as steel, oil, coal, mineral ore, liquid bulk, and
general cargo. With an initial depth of 21 meters,
and a possible expansion to 26 meters, the super-
port will have a 2.9 km extension bridge (already
finished), that will enable berthing the largest size
vessels of the world such as Capesize, VLCCs and
Chinamax.
• Marc Evertse, Port of Rotterdam International
(PORint), Sr. Project Manager
• Jean-Marc Daniel Aboussouan, Infrastructure
Chief, IDB – Inter American Development Bank
• Gustavo Gusmao, Senior Manager Corporate
Finance - Public Sector, Ernst & Young Terco
• Marcos Pinto, Ocean Engineering Department,
USP (University of Sao Paulo)
For more information and to obtain a copy of the
agenda, please contact
patrick@portfinanceinternational.com
www.portfinanceinternational.com
The endeavor foreseen to start operating in 2012,
is being constructed since October 2007 and its
projection was based in the modern and efficient
concept of port-industry. In the nearby area of the
super-port will be built an Industrial Complex within
an area of 90 km2 where will be installed different
types of industries as steel industry, a thermal power
plant, cement, and metallurgical pole industries.
Next to the bays of Campos, Santos and Espíritu
Santo and with easy access to the more developed
regions of the country, the Super-port of Açu shall
serve as logistics center for the central-western and
southeastern regions. The super-port will have an
enormous adjacent Industrial Complex for the
installation of different types of industries such as
steel, mineral ore pellet plants, and an oil treatment
unit, besides an area for storage and movement of
products.
Complementary services will also be offered
provided by specialized firms in the issuance,
intermodal integration, and storage and customs
clearance. This modern concept, known as one-
stop-shop, offers to firms installed within the
Industrial Complex all services necessary for the
production and flow of its products. Besides, the
Super-port of AÇU, Brazil, among
TOP 10 of Infrastructure Works
January-April 2011

10. the industries may have electricity to be supplied by
the thermal power plant of MPX, company of the
EBX group that will act in synergy with another
company of the group in the installation of thermal
plants, the first phase on 2,100 MW coal and the
second phase on 3,300 MW gas. A logistics corridor
of 45 km, formed by transmission lines, water, gas
and telecommunications pipelines, railroad and road,
will connect the Super-port of Açu with the city
of Campos, located north of the state of Rio de
Janeiro, 286 km from the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Hutchison Port Holding HPH, one of the most
important port operators worldwide, makes a strong
entry to Latinports through its affiliates Internacional
de Contenedores of Veracruz (International Containers)
ICAVE, and Lázaro Cárdenas Terminal Portuaria de
Contenedores (Container Port Terminal) LCTPC, both
from Mexico, where is located the main office of the
organization for Latin America.
Hutchison Port Holding HPH has interests in more
than 25 countries throughout Asia, the Middle East,
Europe, America and Australia. Currently it operates
more than 306 terminals and more than 50 ports
around the world. In 2009, the Hutchison Group
handled more than 65.3 million TEUs worldwide.
Internacional de Contenedores de Veracruz -
(International Containers Associates) ICAVE
the Atlantic basin, the eastern coast of North and
South America, Europe and Africa.
ICAVE has become the main containers port
operator of Mexico, having significantly increased its
cargo movements, and operates today 80% of the
containers of the port of Veracruz, which represents
20% of the containers handled at all Mexican ports.
Lázaro Cárdenas Terminal Portuaria de
Contenedores - (Containers Port Terminal)
LCTPC
Located in the state of Michoacán, on the east
coast of the Mexican Republic, LCTPC started
operations on November 19, 2003. At present,
LCTPC is in a construction and development
phase of the largest container terminal of the
Mexican Port System, in an unexploited land facing
the water on the north canal of the port of Lázaro
Cárdenas, which will have a total surface of 122
hectares, with 1,480 meters facing the water and a
dynamic capacity of up to 2.6 million TEUs. This
new terminal is developed in three large phases,
of which the first one, unique in its type, started
operations on November 28, 2007.
ICAVE, a maneuvering firm established as a result
of port privatizing and restructuring program,
started in Mexico in 1994 as the first port terminal
operated by the private sector of the country.
Located at Zone 2 of the port of Veracruz, it started
operations in 1995 with the adequate infrastructure
and equipment to handle all types of container
cargo, serving as main exit to merchandises towards
Hutchison Group enters Latinports
through its Mexican affiliates
January-April 2011

12. New Sustaining Members
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for port and drilling platform cranes, as well as sea
cranes, probe platform cranes, port gantry cranes,
and also universal crawler cranes and lifting crawler
cranes.
For more information please contact Anton Wasler
at the Miami branch, e-mail anton.walser@liebherr.
com or telephones 1-305-8890176 (fixed) and 1-305-
7467155 (mobile).
Port Finance International Brazil
June 15-16, 2011,
Rio de Janeiro
www.portfinanceinternational.com
cathy@portfinanceinternational.com
Navigation and Flood Control on
the Magdalena River,
July 8, 2011,
Bogotá
www.latinports.org
jpalacio@latinports.org
e-Tech Simulation www.etechsimulation.com is a
division of e-Technologies Solutions Corp., U.S.
company established in West Palm Beach, Florida,
with more than 18 years of experience in providing
tools for professional, academic, and technological
training for the industry of digital libraries in Latin
America and the Caribbean. It focuses exclusively on
the simulation area developing and manufacturing
simulators for different industries, among which
is the port industry, as a training method for
apprentices and improvement of experienced
personnel.
For more information please contact Jairo Leiva,
e-mail jleiva@etechsimulation.com or telephone
1-561-6973222.
January-April 2011

13. News of Latin American Ports
Brazil
Logistics requires “Strong Investment” in
Waterways and Railways
In a recent interview to Brasil Econômico, the former
minister of ports Pedro Brito, informed on port
logistics obstacles and defended a change in
the transportation matrix. For this purpose, the
elimination of the obstacle caused by the low depth
of ports, accomplished by the dredging program,
the challenge of the government is the expansion
of inter-modality transportation, altogether with the
expansion of investments in waterways and railways.
Jointly with this matrix change, Brito defends the
creation of logistics support zones outside the port
area for containers to go in and out in barges. “We
must have good roads, and basically invest largely in
waterways and railways”, stated Brito.
two ships that stopped in 2009 and 2010 as a result
of the effects of the global crisis.
Log-In has an investment plan of US$0.8 billions
to renew its fleet, which foresees larger vessels in
substitution of present ones (two will arrive in
September). Created in 2007, the company has
shown since then an annual growth of 28% in
volume. “We consider this market has a very strong
potential of growth”, said the president of Log-In,
Vital Jorge.
As complement, Valor highlights that almost 188
million tons that moved through Brazilian ports in
2010 were cabotage, which represented an increase
of 6% compared to 2009. According to data of
the National Agency of Waterway Transportation,
Antaq, despite the growth of the cabotage fleet,
the family of Brazilian vessels is still insufficient
to meet the demand. That is why the number of
authorization orders for charter vessels increased
in 2010, having reached the amount of US$126
millions. Today the authorization for cabotage
navigation of three companies: Marítima Navegação,
Brasfels and Martin Leme Serviços, has been requested to
Antaq.
On the other hand, the operators with Brazilian
banner Mercosul Lines and Log In, partners of a
service called “Cabotage Manaus”, started weekly
stops in Itajai, with operations at the APM Terminal.
This service originally stopped at the port of
Imbituba, south of Brazil. The reasons for changing
were expressed by Mr. João Batista Momesso,
Commercial Manager of Mercosul: “the change
to Itajai was due to its geographic position and to
the concentration of services providers within the
region, which will enable the line to offer door-to-
door logistics solutions for all Brazil”. The rotation
of this service shall be from now on: Itajai, Manaus,
Paranagua, Santos, Suape and Pecem. They expect
to handle an average of 2,500 containers per month,
mainly including cargo produced in the state of
Santa Catarina, such as frozen chicken, tiles, paper
and cellulose.
Cabotage Increases and Attracts Multinationals
According to an article of the informative Valor,
growth of cabotage made it again a viable option
for companies with large volumes and now
bets for logistics rationalization. Challenges now
are to increase offer of ships and improve port
infrastructure. “Cabotage potential is huge; depends
of availability of operators investing on more
lines”, affirms Darlan Carvalho, logistics director
of the internal market of Brazil Foods, currently
transporting by ship only 4% of the 2.5 million
tons moved through the internal market every year.
“If there were more sea route capacity, this ratio
would undoubtedly increase”, stated Carvalho. The
newspaper informs that the containerships fleet
dedicated to cabotage on a regular frequency in the
Brazilian coast is of 20 vessels and most of them are
planning to expand this year: Maestra will have two
more units this semester; and Aliança will reactivate
January-April 2011

14. News of Latin American Ports
Another cabotage operator made its inaugural stop
at the port complex of Itajai. . Maestra Navegação
e Logistica, a company fully controlled by Triunfo
Investments. Maestra Atlántico (former Lloyd Atlántico)
made its first call on April 7 at Terminal Portonave,
and very soon will be joined by Maestra Mediterráneo
(former Neptunia Mediterráneo) and possibly two more
ships. The intention of the line is to provide services
to the ports of Itajai, Santos, Suape and Manaus.
revised investment forecasts for 2011 in the country,
moving from US$86.5 millions to US$117 millions,
paying special attention to the terminal of Imbituba.
A note from Tribuna stated that operational increase
for the company reflects the strong growth of
Brazilian foreign trade, the valuation of the Real,
and its investments in infrastructure, technology
and manpower. Valor brings more details of the
quarterly balance sheet of Santos Brazil, highlighting
that net income for the quarter amounted to
US$221, and the Ebitda reached US$60 million (an
88% growth). According to the publication, the
executive director of relationships with investors
of the company, Marcos Tourinho, stated that the
company raised US$52 millions the Ebitda forecast
for 2011, for a total of US$306 millions.
Besides, Tribuna informed that the Containers
Terminal of Santos Brazil closed March with
two historical productivity records: an average
of 60.71 movements per hour/vessel, and 23.94
movements per hour/crane, which were the result
of investments in personnel training and advanced
technology, according to the company.
Expansion Plans of Libra at the Port of Santos
The informative Tribuna highlighted the comment
of the president of Libra Terminais, Wagner Biasoli,
on the intention of the company to increase its
operations in the port complex of Santos: “Libra
wants to expand and any other area of the Port
of Santos is important in this process”. Consistent
with the above, Biasoli stated that the company
will challenge the area of Prainha for container
movement, located on the left margin of the port of
Santos, for which it was already authorized to study
its implantation, as well as NF Motta, LPC-Latina
and Locafrio.
Press Highlights Growth of the Terminal of
Containers Santos Brazil
Release of results of the group during the first
quarter had a positive welcome in the publications
Valor, Folha, A Tribuna and Brasil Econômico. A report
of Valor highlights the increase of 50% income
as a result of the growth in cargo movement. An
article of Folha, calls attention on the volume of
movement, good part at the port of Santos (227,000
containers in the quarter, which represent a 31%
growth compared to the same period of 2010). Brasil
Econômico also highlights the investment of US$ 117
million foreseen for this year.
Valor presents comments of Richard Klien,
president of the management council, and of the
director of relationship with investors, Marcos
Tourinho. “It was an excellent result, not only
economic-financial, but also operational”, stated
Klien; according to him, results were mostly of a
higher volume of containers mobilized, especially
at the terminal of Santos, but also contributed the
readjustment in tariff prices of services provided as
imports storage of containers. Both Valor and Brasil
Econômico make a note of quarterly liquid profits,
which amounted to US$27 million, compared to the
US$3 millions of last year. Investment during the
period amounted to US$28.5 millions. Folha, Valor
and Brasil Econômico also informed that the company
January-April 2011

15. News of Latin American Ports
2010 originated in the different services provided to
the oil and gas industry, in ten years this percentage
may reach 50%”, forecasts the president of Wilson
Sons, Cesar Baião.
Controversy for Previous License to Triunfo for
a Mega-terminal in Santos
The Port Terminal Brites, of the Triunfo group,
received a previous license for its construction in
a land of 190 hectares in the left margin of the
Santos channel, although it may be possible it will
have difficulties to obtain the authorization from
the National Agency of Waterway Transportation,
Antaq, as according to the informative Valor, the
law of ports foresees that only companies owning a
minimum cargo may build private terminals, which
is not the case of Triunfo; in addition, according to
Tribuna, the Management Port Council, CAP, of the
Port of Santos will recur to the Brazilian Institute
of the Environment and Natural Resources,
Ibama, to suspend the environmental license for
the installation of the terminal, as the area where
it will be constructed is strategic for the port and
may not be separated from the expansion projects
being studied (“such area may not be treated
independently”, stated the president of CAP, Sérgio
Aquino, who will also recur to Antaq to prevent the
independent issuance of the authorization).
Nevertheless, the company will look for
shipping partners in the modalities of cargo for
transportation in order to fit into national legislation;
in addition, the decision of betting for an exclusive
structure for cabotage is also a form of Triunfo not
to compete with containers in public-use terminals
as they are struggling for a long-time market at the
port of Santos, as the idea is to service a less valued
niche in times of movement peaks. According to the
plans of Triunfo, Brites must be a mega-terminal
Wilson Sons Invests in the Expansion of the
Terminal in Salvador
According to the president, Cezar Baião, the
company is planning to invest more than US$400
million in 2011 and 2012 to sustain the strategy of
growth supported mostly in the oil and gas segment,
without including potential acquisitions. “It is an
investment in organic growth” said Baião, and the
strategy will continue focused on the attention to
Brazilian foreign trade, through port terminals in
the domestic market by means of offering logistics
services, and the oil and gas segment, which is ever
more gaining space. “While company income in
On the other hand, according to the informative
Tribuna, Libra Logística signed with the companies
Komatsu, Wobben and Brasken annual contracts
for a total amount of US$17.5 millions, to handle
its logistics exports chains in Santos, Cubatão
and Campinas, respectively, which will invest
approximately US$37.5 million. In the particular
case of Santos (Teval), 100,000 square meters of
storage will be gained. As of April, Brasken is
sending thermal-plastic resins to Teval and Cubatão;
Wobben Windpower, which produces equipment
for wind power plants, may store an average of 40
wind vanes; and the Japanese Komatsu, on the other
hand, manufacturer of tractors, backhoes and other
heavy equipment, has already obtained 18% savings
in its costs.
In addition, worth noting is the historical
productivity record of the terminal that, according
to Container Management-Latin America of April, on
February 6 reached a peak of 105.6 movements
per hour, much higher than the January 85.4
movements (average that month was 48.4
movements). This was the result, according to the
company, of the acquisition of two new dock cranes
ZPMC that have been in operation there since
December of last year.
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with a capacity to move 870,000 containers, two
million tons of solid grains, and 4.5 million tons of
ethanol, for which an investment has been foreseen
of one billion dollars. Expectation is to generate
1,200 direct employments and start operations in
2013.
In exports, one year ago costs of a container from
Brazil to China was US$1,300, and today there is no
difficulty in getting it for US$800.
Bolivian Cargo registers a strong growth at Port
of Arica
Bolivian cargo transportation at the port of Arica,
located in the northern region of Chile, substantially
increased in the last years. In 2010 Bolivian cargo
increased 19% having moved to 1.5 million tons,
which represent 73% of port transfers during the
year. This figure must increase even more with the
termination of the renewal of the Arica-La Paz
railroad.
The port moved a total of 2.13 million tons of
cargo last year, with a growth of 20% compared to
2009. Handling of 130,884 TEUs during the year
represented an increment of 20% compared to
2009.
At its peak performance in 2010, Itajai
approached one million TEUs
With a record of 954,036 TEUs handled in 2010,
it surpassed the forecast 800,000 TEUs for the end
of this year. This volume represents 61% increase
compared to performance of 2009. The total
number of full containers handled increased 98%,
while unloading empty containers increased almost
15%. Total export containers increased 50% while
empty containers increased 117%.
Megaships of Maersk Line Start Arriving to the
Country
Maersk informed that its new fleet of megaships
will start arriving to Brazil in May: six ships with
a nominal capacity of 8,000 TEUs and 1,707
refrigerated container jacks to be used in the Asian
traffic. The first one to arrive will be the Maersk
Lima, to the port of Sepetiba in Rio de Janeiro,
and then to Santos. The fleet will be completed in
August and besides Sepetiba and Santos, a stop is
guaranteed in Paranagua.
Today, Maersk has traffic to Asia on a weekly
basis jointly with Hamburg Süd. A total of 12
containerships (half from each shipper), with a
nominal offer of 5,500 TEUs, but upon substitution
of the 12 ships, the service will increase 37%
regarding space offer, thus reaching 90 thousand
TEUs.
Currently, the market has an excess offer of capacity
and pressure on freights, as prior to the crisis of
2008 several ship owners placed orders to shipyards
and most vessels are being delivered this year.
As of the end of 2010, prices of services with
Asia and the East Coast of South America have
fallen, after recovery started in 2009. In the case
of Brazil, one year ago a container imported from
China would cost US$4,500 and today it may cost
US$1,900. According to data of the consultant
Datamar, Brazilian sea imports from Peking grew
42% between February 2010 and February 2011,
having reached 51,337 TEUs.
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The Project seeks connecting the railway network
of Carare with the Central Railroad, thus forming
a network that would transport almost 30 million
tons of coal per year. The railway starts at the
central department of Cundinamarca, passing by
the departments of Boyacá and Santander, and
finally arriving to the south of the department
of Cesar before connecting with the coast in the
northern regions. The Carare project shall imply
an investment of approximately US$670mm. The
Central Railroad, after its failed concession of 2008,
will require approximately US$1,160mm. Both
lines will have only one operator and the initiative
will be one of the most ambitious of the national
development plan of Colombia, forming the biggest
railway network of the country, emphasized the vice-
minister in her presentation, adding that “we expect
having this great project structured in a couple of
years and then advance with the tender”.
Buenaventura Containers Terminal Enters in
Operation
Operations of the new terminal (TCBuen) started
in January, and for its first year estimated capacity
is 260,000 TEUs, increasing 30% the total capacity
of the port of Buenaventura. The last development
of the global terminal operator TCB of Barcelona
represented an investment of US$250 million for
the first phase of four estimated phases of TCBuen,
becoming the second largest port of the Colombian
Pacific Coast. Next May 13th will be the formal
inauguration of the terminal, with the presence of
the President of the Republic, Juan Manuel Santos.
Ministry of Transportation will Develop Public-
Private Association for Railway Network
The Ministry of Transportation of Colombia is
preparing a public-private association Project (APP)
for the amount of US$1.830mm for a railway
network that will allow transporting coal to the
ports of the Atlantic, stated the vice-minister of
Transportation, María Constanza García, during the
event BNAmericas-Andean Infrastructure Summit
that was recently held in Bogotá.
Arica will implement a community port system
by September
The Chilean port of Arica plans to implement
the first version of a new community port system
by September of this year, as informed by the
state-owned firm Empresa Portuaria Arica. The
Community Port Arica (CPA), formed by a number
of public and private entities involved in the port, is
investing approximately US$148,000 to develop the
first phase of the prototype of the system, being the
first public port of Chile in implementing this type
of system.
The first phase will allow monitoring cargo traffic so
the CPA may identify congested points in the port.
Software will further enable to track containers for
Bolivian imports and offer tutoring to users of the
port and clients of the logistics chain, detailing the
process to handle cargo and the agencies involved
in each phase. The goal of EPA is that clients may
track their own cargo at any point of the logistics
chain, and besides to handle accounts, request
quotations, deal with government agencies such as
customs, and process payments online.
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Atlántico, Japdeva, has criticized the award of the
concession. The National Chamber of Banana
Growers also presented a demand against the
Nation and requested the government to annul the
concession, as informed by the local newspaper, La
Nación. The chamber claims that the government
did not have the proper technical, financial and
environmental studies for the initiative and that cost
of the new terminal will raise tariffs 130% compared
to present tariffs at the terminal Moín-Limón.
The Minister of Public Works and Transportation,
Francisco Jiménez, defended the concession at
the time and stated that feasibility studies had
been completed and that the bidding process was
developed in accordance with the legislation.
This project is the second private port, large-
scale initiative that advances in the last month, as
the government authorized Americas Gateway
Development Corporation (Amega) not long ago
to start the second phase of studies for a transfer
terminal of US$900 millions, also in the province of
Limón.
Government Authorizes Amega to Start
Designs of the Transfer Terminal at Moín
The government of Costa Rica completed the last
steps required for Americas Gateway Development
Corporation, Amega, to begin the second stage of
the studies for a new transfer terminal next to the
port of Moín, in the province of Limón. Amega
received final approval after the appointment of
a governmental counterparty for the project and
after accepting that a trust contracts an independent
engineering consultant to act as auditor.
The government will appoint an independent
auditor within the next three weeks, which will be
contracted through a trust established by
APM Terminals will start construction of
containers terminal in 2013
On March 1st the President of the Republic, Laura
Chinchilla, signed a concession agreement with
APM to build and operate the new port, and in the
next 18-24 months the Dutch firm must complete
the final designs and obtain environmental permits
for the project. The new port shall be an important
part of the logistics corridor of the north Caribbean
area and will have a key role in the development of
country competitiveness, stated Chinchilla at a press
conference.
The National Council of Concessions (CNC)
awarded the tender to APM, the only bidder for
the project, after extending the initial date of
award programmed for the end of January. The
economic offer includes a port tariff lower than
the reference price approved by the national public
services regulator, Aresep. During the next 120 days
following the date of award, APM must complete
certain conditions of the contract, constitute the
local company, capitalize it, change the tender
guarantee for a construction guarantee, and an
extensive series of administrative matters.
The new terminal of containers in the Eastern
province of Limón, will be located about 10 km
of existing ports Moín and Limón, and involves
a construction area of 1,500 square meters. It will
have a capacity to receive Panamax vessels of up
to 65,000 tons of cargo and will have a capacity
to handle 3.7 million TEUs in four stages, starting
with 1.3 million TEUs. The terminal will require an
investment of US$992 millions.
Nevertheless, the project has faced certain
opposition from the time it was awarded to AMP
and the union of workers of the port authority of
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The port of La Unión had a cost of US$183
millions and its construction ended in June of
2008, in charge of the Toa-Jan De Nul consortium.
The multipurpose port specializes in handling of
containers with a capacity of 850,000 TEUs in its
first phase and 1.7 million TEUs in a second and
third phase of development. A previous intent
to concession La Unión failed in 2009 after the
Assembly rejected a bill establishing a concession
model. For this reason Cepa started partially
operating the port in June of last year.
Project of Puente Atlántico of the Panama
Canal Authority (ACP) will Cost US$350
Millions
The ACP entered the bid of a consultancy to finish
the design of a new and very long cable-stayed
bridge on the Atlantic bank of the Panama Canal.
The consultant will deliver final designs, construction
specifications and estimate the cost of construction
that should not surpass US$350 millions. The award
of the tender is foreseen for the end of April and
aims at the construction tender of the bridge in
February 2012. The contractor will have 270 labor
days from notice of award to work execution.
Height of the structure must be 75 meters over
the canal, considering the possibility of a fourth set
of locks and a life of 100 years. The project also
involves the design of access roads at each side
of the canal, besides other bridges that might be
required as part of those routes.
Cepa will Finish Port Concession of La Unión
in July 2012
The Autonomous Port Executive Commission of
El Salvador, national port operator, expects to finish
the concession of the port of La Unión in July 2012.
A bill has already been presented to the Legislative
Assembly to concession the port, which must be
analyzed by the special treasury commission in a
short time and, once the project is approved, the
authorities will start preparing the tender documents.
The objective of the government is to concession
the port to an international operator for it to become
an international pole of cargo. Port operators such
as DP World, APM Terminals, Ports of America
and SAAM have shown interest in the initiative.
Amega. Disbursement will be included in project
development costs of the company that will invest
US$15 million to complete detailed designs covering
technical, legal, financial and environmental issues
of the project, besides preparing drafts of the
tender basis for the new terminal. Amega expects
to complete studies in May 2012, and once designs
are presented, the government has three months to
revise plans and launch tender for the concession.
The transfer terminal will require an investment of
approximately US$900 million will have a capacity
to handle 2 million TEUs per year and a 1 km-long
dock, a 19 m deep access channel to the port of
Moín and a berthing place for three containerships
with a capacity of almost 15,000 TEUs.
El Salvador
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or expansion projects, in areas of rapid growth
worldwide.
In March of this year, APM also signed an
agreement with the government of Costa Rica for
the construction and operation of a containers
terminal in the eastern province of Limón.
Government considers declaring of public
interest a port of US$3,500 Millions
The government of Uruguay is about to declare of
public interest a private initiative for the construction
of a deep water port in the department of Rocha,
the first semester of this year, which will be part
of a bioceanic corridor that will receive cargo
from Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay, and its detailed
feasibility studies are expected to be presented to the
government by the end of March. The Compañía
Oriental de Desarrollo e Inversiones (Eastern
Company for Development and Investments), a
firm representing the consortium that operates
the Spanish port of La Coruña, formed by ACS,
OHL and others, presented the private project of
US$3,500 millions to the president José Mujica on
December 31st.
Contract of North Dock Would Close By the
End of the Year
The Peruvian agency ProInversión awarded on April
1st the concession of the terminal to a consortium
of which its leader is the Dutch port operator
APM Terminals that expect to close the concession
contract for the Peruvian port of Callao in a month
or two. The group, which also includes the Dutch
firm Callao Port Holding and the Peruvian firm
Central Portuaria, received the award thanks to the
tariff offered for special port services, exceeding
the offer of the only other competitor, a group
formed by Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), Port
Investment Limited and Sino Invest.
The concession contract sets forth an investment
of US$749mm for the terminal, including the
modernization and improvement of berth sites 1,
2, 3, 4 and 5 of the port of Callao, the port with
the largest activity of the country. APM Terminals
operate containers facilities in 34 countries, and
currently work in 13 projects of new terminals
With appreciation and great admiration for
your work
Pedro Brito
Former Minister of Ports
Brazil
We received very positive comments in the
surveys, and you were quoted as one of the
most interesting lecturers
Carrie Shapiro
Conference Producer
Argus Americas Coal Summit
New Orleans, USA
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January-April 2011