The Board of Directors of Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores S.A. (CSAV) has approved yesterday an investment plan of US$570 million consisting in the acquisition of seven new containerships and the prepayment of a debt facility of US$258 million at a significant discount. The 9,300 TEU vessels will be built by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), [...]
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![IMO Secretary-General to Highlight Organization’s Key Issues in Chile]()
IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu is to visit Chile this week and will take the opportunity to highlight a number of important issues on the Organization’s current agenda. On 5 December, Mr Sekimizu will speak about IMO’s commitment to sustainable maritime development at the Exponaval conference in Valparaiso, drawing on the outcomes of both the UN [...]
Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd. announced that it has been selected the preferred bidder for the floating LNG import terminal (FSRU) sponsored by Colbún S.A. and AES Gener S.A. (the “Client”) in Chile. The term of the contract is 10 years, with an extension option for the Client for a further 5 years. The start-up of [...]
The vessels Frøyhav and Frøyfisk got the final approvals from Chilean authorities on 21 April 2012, and immediately thereafter commenced operations under the time-charter contracts with the companies Granja Marina Tornagaleones S.A. and Invertec Pesquera Mar de Chiloe S.A.. In connection with the re-flagging and approvals of the vessels in Chile, fish carriers Frøyhav and [...]
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![Samsung Heavy Delivers New Containership to Chilean Company]()
Samsung Heavy Industries has delivered a 8,100 TEU containership to Chilean company Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV). This 300 meters long vessel named Tucapel comes as the fifth vessel in a series of seven that CSAV has ordered from the Korean shipbuilder. The Tucapel acquisition is deemed to be part of CSAV’s restructuring [...]
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![Chile: Puerto Central to Invest in Costanera Espigon Terminal Expansion]()
Puerto Central, a unit of Chilean port company Puerto Lirquén, which operates Costanera Espigón terminal at San Antonio port in Chile… (PortNews) Source: PortNews, November 15, 2011
![Maersk to Invest in New Reefers Factory in Chile]()
Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk will invest about $170 million in a new factory in Chile to produce refrigerator containers… Reporting by John Acher(Reuters) Source: Reuters, November 14, 2011
![Chile: Transport Undersecretary Puts Focus on Port Development]()
Creating an efficient logistics chain and support network is one of the main challenges facing Chile’s port development, transport undersecr… By Juan Andres Abarca (BNAmericas) Source: BNAmericas, October 27, 2011
![Chile: GasAtacama Plans LNG FSRU]()
Chilean generator and gas distributor GasAtacama is planning to invest US$250mn developing what would be the country’s third LNG… (Bnamericas) Source: Bnamericas, August 24, 2011;
![AXYS Technologies Buoys Measure Wave Energy Potential Offshore Chile]()
AXYS Technologies Inc. (AXYS) has recently delivered two TRIAXYS™ Next Wave Directional Wave Buoys to Instituto Nacional de Hidráulica (INH) in Santiago, Chile. INH is developing the study, “Catastro del Recurso Energético Asociado a Oleaje Para el Apoyo a la Evaluación de Proyectos de Generación de Energia Undimotriz” to measure offshore wave characteristics for the [...]
