The Colombia Shipping Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, shipping associations, government departments and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on Colombia’s shipping industry. Colombia’s potential as a growth market for the international maritime sector has been further realised with the news that Goldman Sachs subsidiary SSA Marine will invest in [...]
Ottawa, Ontario – (September 27, 2010) – Clearford Industries Inc. (“Clearford” or the “Company”, TSX-V: CLI) today announced agreements with two municipal governments representing towns near Cali, Colombia to design and supply the Clearford waste-water collection and treatment system. This agreement is for the residential areas of San Pedro and Cerrito, Valle de Cauca, which [...]
Billionaire investor Sam Zell’s Equity International is in talks to invest in Mexican and Colombian real-estate firms as economic growth prospects outweigh drug-fueled violence, Chief Executive Officer Gary Garrabrant said. Equity International may return to Mexico after selling its last investment there in 2008 and may put money in Colombia for the first time,Garrabrant said [...]
Discover Colombia News is proud to report on a new book recently published in July 2010 and is beginning to hit the local bookstores near you. The subject is medical tourism or “surgical tourism” as it is coined in this publication. The exotic location of choice for this book is Cartagena, Colombia. Our website was [...]
The Colombia pavilion in Shanghai Expo 2010 has received two million visitors in more than 134 days since it was opened, states Colombia representatives. The statement said the expected figure was thought to be reached in 184 days or six months of the Shanghai Expo. A 25-year-old woman from Shandong Province was No. 2 million [...]
Maurel & Prom has said that the second exploration well (SAB-SE-1) in the Sabanero permit in Colombia, has encountered 12 API crude oil in the Carbonera C7 formation. The Sabanero SE-1 well, which has been drilled to 3,241 ft (988 m) (MD), struck oil with a net pay of 27ft (8m) of which 15ft (4.5m) [...]
The World Bank’s Doing Business team has launched its second annual Subnational Colombia report. Colombia was among this year’s top 10 reformers in the general Doing Business survey, with every city pulling its weight. Each of the 13 regions previously benchmarked showed improvements in at least one of the areas measured. Over 75 percent of [...]
GeoGlobal Resources Inc. announces that a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed with Petro Caribbean Resources Ltd. (PCR) relating to conducting oil and natural gas exploration and development activities in Colombia, subject to the execution by PCR of definitive agreements with the Colombian National Agency of Hydrocarbons (ANH). The exploration activities are to be [...]
Colombia holds second place, behind only Brazil, in BMI’s composite Business Environment (BE) ratings, which combines upstream and downstream scores. It ranks third, behind Venezuela, in BMI’s updated upstream Business Environment ratings, just ahead of Peru. Although the absolute resource base is modest, the competitive environment is attractive and licensing terms have improved to become [...]
Colombia’s total healthcare expenditure is set to grow relatively strongly year-on-year (y-o-y) as the cost of healthcare provision escalates and an increasing number of drugs are demanded under the country’s Mandatory Health Plan (POS). A growing population and strong growth in total drug expenditure over the decade will ensure that overall healthcare spending is maintained [...]
