Update: Kalmar to deliver two Ship-to-Shore cranes to Curaçao Port Services
WILLEMSTAD - Kalmar, part of Cargotec has signed a contract for supplying two Kalmar Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes, including related spare parts, to Curaçao Port Services B.V. The Panamax size cranes will be used More...
Curaçao Port Services orders new harbor cranes
WILLEMSTAD - The container harbor operator Curaςao Port Services (CPS) has ordered new harbor cranes. They financial transaction will take place in April next year and the cranes will arrive at the end of 2019. This More...
Delivery containers delayed
WILLEMSTAD - For several years it has been a problem before the holidays. There are once again problems with the delivery of containers to the freight operators on the island. The distribution of containers, which More...
CPS employees back to work
WILLEMSTAD - The judge in the interim proceedings has instructed the unions representing the employees of Curaçao Port Services (CPS) to instruct its members to resume work at the port. The judge had sent the parties More...
Interim proceedings against striking port workers
WILLEMSTAD - Curaçao Ports Services (CPS) has called on all port workers to go back to work. CPS calls in a written statement for common sense to triumph. The CPS also filed a lawsuit this morning to end the strike. More...
CPS employees on strike
WILLEMSTAD – The employees of the stevedoring company, Curaçao Port Services (CPS) laid down their work this morning out of dissatisfaction for the lack of a new collective agreement. These employees work at More...
Council of Ministers approves proposal on port concession
WILLEMSTAD - The Council of Ministers approved a proposal by the Minister of Economic Development, Eugene Rhuggenaath on a proposal, which should lead to a new concession for the stevedoring operations at the port. More...
Concept port concession adopted
WILLEMSTAD - The concept of port concession will be adopted today by parliaemnt. That is the outcome of the public meeting of parliament yesterday. Whether that would happen was just as exciting: Pueblo Soberano More...
Chamber of Commerce: “Port too important for the economy and future Curaçao”
WILLEMSTAD - This last week we have followed very closely the CPS / CPA discussion over the harbor, and with great concern. From 2008 there is a debate about the contract with CPS, including the maintenance of cranes More...
Minister Rhuggenaath visits the container terminal
WILLEMSTAD - To get a better idea of the facilities at the container port, Eugene Rhuggenaath, who is the Minister responsible for port development, together with the management of Curacao Ports Authority (CPA), More...
