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January-February 2008
(Colombia)
Announces Agreement on Port Concession in Barranquilla
Coalcorp Mining Inc
has completed its review of available port concessions in
Barranquilla. The project has multiples uses, its capacity will be 30
tonnes per year. Sandwell engineering will do technical and engineer
design. This project is going to use River Magdalena to provide the
ships size steaming with heavy shipload and others products.
Cormagdalena will enlarge the production if they need to have more
than 1.5 tonnes per year.
http://micro.newswire.ca/release.cgi?rkey=1601212788&view=97762-0&Start=0
(Brazil)
New port in the state of
Parana.
The
project about invest $ 225 millions containers and cargo in the port
Brazilian State of Parana is
maintained.
Ports of Paranagua and Antonina authority Administração
dos Portos Paranagua and Antonina will help and work with the
project. It will be funded entirely by APPA. The port will have
capacity for the international shipping lines and will be a center of
containers and other merchandise.
http://www.portworld.com/news/2008/01/70452?gsid=68d24cd9a81b8389440b582b93f458b4&asi=1
(Estados Unidos)
AIG
Highstar Capital Creates Ports America Group
The owner of and
investor in Ports America, Inc., MTC Holdings and Amports, Inc. Has
formed a single management structure to operate the total enterprise.
Amports, Inc. will operate as a division of the Group and will retain
its existing management structure. To be branded Ports America, the
Group will be headquartered in Iselin and New Jersey. Ports America
Group is the largest American port and terminal operating company and
is one of the largest in the world. The Group has proven success in
terminal acquisition and development and is a world leader in the
deployment of technology. Highstar Since 2000, Highstar has led or co-
led infrastructure investments totaling in excess of US $10 billion in
enterprise value.
http://www.portsamericagroup.com/
(Mexico) Dallas
Mayor proposes to develop North Monterrey and North Texas potential
Dallas Mayor Tom
Leppert promoted North Texas as a health-care destination and as a
potential trade hub for goods moving through northern Mexico. One of
the more promising projects was the creation of a transportation
corridor that would allow both North Texas and northern Mexico to
benefit from growing U.S.-Mexico trade and booming Asian imports. Aslo
he did a presentation on possible ways to link the inland port in
southern Dallas with a similar one being planned for northern
Monterrey. Both cities are natural transit points also potentially for
Chinese goods that need alternatives to the crowded California ports
of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Some Asian traffic arrives at Mexico's
West Coast ports. Booming global trade will create good-paying jobs in
the cities that can best partner with private enterprise and move
imports and exports as quickly and cheaply as possible. The cities,
which are both economic centers and have great economic power. Both
Dallas and Monterrey want to link with all the big players – the port
of Houston, the Panama Canal, Mexican ports like Lázaro Cárdenas and
Veracruz.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/013108dnintleppertinland.2fe7ae6.html
(Costa Rica)
Investment for Port of Limon development
The World Bank Board
of Executive Directors approved a loan for Costa Rica in the amount of
US$72.5 million to finance the revitalization of the city of Limon and
to support the modernization of its port. The port of Limon, the
busiest port in Central America after Panama, is critical to the
competitiveness of Costa Rica’s trade, but has become a major
bottleneck to the country’s growth due to lack of reform and
inefficiency. The congestion in the port affects the city as heavy
freight traffic has to pass through the city center to get to the
Limon terminal. The City-Port of Limon Project will help to address
these challenges through support for actions in four key areas: Urban
and cultural revitalization, Local economic development, Local
governance and city-port strategic planning, Support for improving the
port environment, and also aims to address poverty and social
problems.
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21608146~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html
(Dominican Republic
/ CIP) Third Hemispheric Conference on Port
Security in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
The
Inter-American Committee on Ports (CIP) of the Organization of
American States (OAS)
will celebrate its
Third Hemispheric Conference on Port
Security in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, April 7-10, 2008,
in collaboration with the Cuerpo Especializado de Seguridad Portuaria
(CESEP) and the Autoridad Portuaria Dominicana (APORDOM) both entities
from the Dominican Republic.
The principal objectives of the Conference will be: (a)
To widely disseminate the state of international standards and norms
on port security. (b) To stress the progress made by the Governments
of Member States on port security. (c) To identify common problems
that Member States face in the fulfillment of international norms and
standards of port security and to look for solutions through the
experiences and the best practices realized in the hemisphere. (d) To
stress the interaction between security, safety and port efficiency,
as essential elements to ensure competitiveness in ports.
www.oas.org/cip
(CIP) Associated
members of the Technical Advisory Groups (TAG)
The TAG are organs
of the CIP of the OAS whose principle objective is to provide
technical advice to the Committee on specific aspects of port
development in the hemisphere. They are created by the CIP by proposal
of a Member State which will lead the work of the Group for two years.
The Group can be extended in duration if given a favorable evaluation
by the Committee. Each TAG is integrated by government representatives
of the Member States, specialists in the issue of the Group, and by
associate members who are representatives of port administration and
operating entities, academic, scientific, financial, development, and
industrial institutions, and other organizations related to port
sector activities that have legal standing, especially within the
issue. The associate members provide an annual contribution and counts
with a voice but no vote. Member States count with a voice and vote.
Member States of a TAG accredit the representatives that will be
specialists in issues of the TAG, through a note addressed to the
Chair of the TAG with a copy to the Secretariat of the CIP. The
Committee established in Salvador, Brazil, that the membership period
for an associate member to a TAG is 2 years, beginning January 1, 2008
until December 31, 2009. The membership fee is for the fixed amount of
US $2,000 (two thousand American Dollars), paid at the moment of
registration. Each entity or institution accredited as an associate
member will register one (1) representative who can have multiple
functions, among those: (i) Participate in meetings of the TAG with a
voice. (ii) Make technical presentations and promote their business,
products, and services. (iii) Participate without paying the
registration fee for meetings of the other TAG, the Executive Board,
and the Committee, in addition to CIP Conferences, seminars and
technical events organized by their TAG. (iv) Participate in the
social and tourism events organized during these occasions. (v)
Receive specialized technical material and information that is
provided during these occasions, without cost, among others.
www.oas.org/cip
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