News / Environmental campaigners in legal threat to planned deepwater port at Posorja

DP World’s planned new port at Posorja in Ecuador has come under threat from legal action against the environmental permit granted by the government.

According to local reports, lawyers representing environmental interests have disputed the permission, granted to the project’s developers, to dredge an access channel to the port.

They have filed an environmental protection action against Ecuador’s ministry of transport, claiming the dredge will disturb the habitat of bottlenose dolphins.

Critics of the project claimed the ministry had failed to carry out ...