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Road congestion in Buenos Aires is chronic and port traffic has to go through the city as there is no by-pass. AGP wants to see the rail int...

Burnished, tarnished light

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After privatisation in 1993, the cost of using Buenos Aires fell dramatically and, as container traffic soared, the port was heralded as Lat...

An ill wind in Buenos Aires?

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SAP (Sociedad Administradora Portuaria) will have its hands full when it succeeds AGP as the Buenos Aires port authority in June....

Zarat� on the up?

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Things may be looking up for Auto Terminal Zarat� SA (ATZ), the 50:50 joint venture between the Murchison Group and Brazil-based trading c...

Tarragon says the Rosary?

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After a couple of postponements, the second attempt to find an operator for the multi-purpose terminal in the Port of Rosario may have settl...

New operators in Buenos Aires

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While consolidation of terminal operations in Buenos Aires is claimed to have led to producivity increases, Argentina's General Ports Admini...

Rosario postponed

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A second attempt to find a private operator at Argentina's Rosario port (to replace ICTSI-owned Prosa) has been postponed....

Zarat� moving forward

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Terminal Zarat� SA, part of the privately-owned Murchison stevedoring group, has ordered management software from Belgium-based Cosmos for...

BACTSSA terminal up for sale?…

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The Buenos Aires rumour mill is hot with reports that Terminal 5 (BACTSSA) is up for sale, with Maersk Sealand, (which has just bought a maj...

Terminal moves in the Plate

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As reported in last month's WorldCargo News (p6), not only has P&O Ports-backed TRP taken over a rival company, TPA (the Terminal 3 operator...

TRP set to take over TPA in BA

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TRP, the P&O Ports-backed terminal operator in Puerto Nuevo (Buenos Aires), is to take over one of its rivals, TPA, which operates Terminal ...

TCB for La Plata?

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Spain-based terminal operator Grup TCB has presented a project to build the proposed Atlantic XXI Multi-Terminal in the Argentine port of La...

Buenos Aires moves

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Puero Nuevo (Buenos Aires) terminal operator TPA has admitted that it has been holding sale talks with Chilean line CSAV/SAAM, while there a...

Formosa transfer

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The government of Argentina has transferred responsibility for two inland ports in the north of the country to the provincial government.....

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