News Deme-led consortium to build €300m terminal at German port of Cuxhaven Belgian dredging company Deme has won a contract worth €52m to help build an offshore wind terminal in the Port of Cuxhaven in Germany. Expected to cost €300m in total,…
News Peru’s ‘transformational’ Chancay Port opens for business China’s Cosco Shipping opened the first phase of its new Chancay Port in Peru yesterday after a two-year construction period. The complex 78km north of Lima will now begin handling…
News Acciona to build breakwater for Italian port of Ravenna A consortium that includes Spain’s Acciona and Italy’s RCM Construzioni has been selected to build a 880m-long, 22m-wide breakwater at the Port of Ravenna in eastern Italy. The structure will…
News Morocco’s new port to spend €400m on doubling truck capacity Morocco has secured €400m to fund the expansion of its truck and passenger terminal at Tanger Med Port. The expansion will more than double the port’s truck handling capacity to…
News Peru’s $3bn mega port to start operations next month The $3bn scheme to build the Peruvian port of Chancay is on track to complete next month, Reuters reports. A local executive of the Chinese shipping company Cosco said the…
News APM Terminals to invest $240m in Jordan’s Aqaba port in return for 15-year extension The Kingdom of Jordan signed an agreement with APM Terminals on Wednesday to upgrade the container terminal at its port in Aqaba on the Red Sea. The Dutch company will…
News Turkish contractor to create regional port hub in Somalia Turkish contractor Metag Holding has signed an agreement to expand the ancient Somali port of Hobyo, Kenyan newspaper The Star reports. Metag’s deal with the Hobyo Investment Company will see…
News Mexican port plans $600m expansion to tap US ‘nearshoring’ boom The Port of Lázaro Cárdenas on Mexico’s Pacific coast will invest $617m to expand its capacity over the next six years to meet American companies’ growing demand for “nearshoring”, the…
News Chinese firm eyes construction of deepwater port in Liberia A subsidiary of China Railways is considering investing in the creation of a major port in the West African state of Liberia. The China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Bureau Group…
News Comoros archipelago gets $135m to upgrade ports The African Development Bank (AfDB) is lending the Union of the Comoros $135m so it can improve its ports to boost trade. Comoros is an archipelago of three islands in…
News $137m to build floating dock at Ghana port A consortium of development banks has agreed to back “Project Shiprite”, a floating drydock that will be built at the port of Takoradi in western Ghana. The $137m dock will…
News China Communications only bidder for deep-water port in Georgia The job of building a deep-water port in the Caucasus state of Georgia has gone to the project’s only bidder, China Communications and its China Harbour Investment subsidiary. Levan Davitashvili,…
News Work starts on $17bn iron ore rail-and-port scheme in Guinea A consortium of companies including mining giant Rio Tinto has broken ground on a 650km railway in the West African state of Guinea to ship iron ore. The “Trans-Guinean Railway”…
News Port of Oakland puts Hill on call for construction Hill International has won a three-year contract to provide on-call construction management for federally-funded projects for the Port of Oakland in California. Work could arise from maintaining the seaport, plus…
News Acciona, Dragados, FCC and Sacyr in the running for Valencia port terminal The Port Authority of Valencia in Spain has announced that four teams have entered bids to build a northern expansion for its container terminal. All the consortiums vying for the…
News Work starts on $580m Vietnamese port after four-year delay Ground broke last week on a $580m port project in the Vietnamese province of Quang Tri, English language daily Vietnam News reports. Going up on a 685ha greenfield site in…
News Webuild to put marine wildlife in aquarium while building Genoa breakwater A consortium led by Italy’s Webuild (40%) has explained its plan for protecting marine life affected by the construction of a breakwater at Genoa port. A team of marine biologists…
News Second Chinese port planned for Peru A subsidiary of Chinese firm Jinzhao has won a $405m contract to build a port in Peru, one of the world’s top copper producers, Reuters reports. Jinzhao Peru will build…