Colombia river plan

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Plans are underway in Colombia to make 256 km of the Magdalena river navigable for cargo to be transported from the country's central region...

Navis RTLS for Cartagena

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Navis has signed a contract to implement the WhereNet RFID-based Real Time Locating System (RTLS) at Sociedad Portuaria de Cartagena (SPRC) ...

New cranes for Santa Marta

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Two post-Panamax STS gantry cranes and four electrically-powered RTGs from ZPMC have arrived at the Port of Santa Marta in Colombia on board...

CTQI for Cartagena

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Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has certified the Contecor and Manga terminals operated by Colombia’s Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Cartagena SA ...

TCB garners local Colombian support

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Barcelona-based TCB group, which, as previously reported, was awarded a US$210M, 30-year concession to build a new container terminal in the...

New box terminal for Buenaventura

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A group of local public and private investors is moving forward with plans to develop a new container terminal in the bay of Buenaventura, C...

Colombia considers port concessions

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The government of Colombia is considering requests from operators of the ports of Santa Marta, Barranquilla and Buenaventura to extend their...

SPRC takes over Cartagena rival

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Port of Cartagena, Colombia, operator Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Cartagena (SPRC) has acquired its local rival Contecar for a price unde...

New ports for Colombia

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Colombia’s Transport Ministry is to develop three new ports in the next seven to eight years costing a combined US$1.4 bill. These will be...

SPRC ahead of schedule

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The expansion programme at the Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Cartagena (SPRC) container terminal in Colombia (see World- Cargo News Novembe...

New port in Barranquilla

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Colombia's Sociedad Portuaria del Norte (SPN) is planning to build a new port by the end of the year, 1 km downstream from the existing Term...

Colombians woo Chinese investors

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Officials from Colombia's Transport Ministry are seeking to persuade Chinese investors to finance the Tribuga Port development, in the weste...

Cartagena expansion

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SPRC (Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Cartagena) Container Terminal, Colombia's leading terminal operator, is investing US$25 mill in the sec...

Buoyant Cartagena

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Container movement through the Colombian Port of Cartagena de Indias in 2001 registered an increase of 17.15 per cent over the previous year...

Worshipping false gods?

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Ideas that ports on the South American west coast could become transhipment hubs are �almost certainly not realistic�...

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