March 3rd, 20150Manila: The Philippine government claimed yesterday that the capital’s year-long port congestion issues are over. “There was a time that the ports and all the...
March 3rd, 20150Cochin: The Cochin Port Trust (ChPT) has launched construction work on a flyover and a rail over bridge at Vallarpadam to improve the connectivity of the International...
March 3rd, 20150Mumbai: Workers in the Indian port sector are up in arms against the budgetary proposal to corporatise major ports, as they fear the move would affect them adversely....
March 2nd, 20150Houston: Kinder Morgan, North America’s largest energy infrastructure company, has completed the purchase of three US terminals from Dutch tank storage firm Royal...
March 2nd, 20150New Delhi: More than a decade after a government committee recommended the corporatisation of the 12 major state-owned ports, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced in...
March 2nd, 20150Bangkok: Songkhla Port in southern Thailand has renovated its breakwater structures for better ship access. The thalweg at the port usually becomes shallower during...
March 1st, 20150Doha: The new port being built in Mesaieed in Doha has been named Hamad Port, just like its new airport. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday...
February 27th, 20150Oslo: Maersk’s top performing business unit in 2014 has quietly inserted Henrik Pedersen as its new CFO after firing three top officials. The new CFO is no...
February 27th, 20150Singapore: Singapore’s huge Tuas port project is set to kick off in about three months time with South Korea’s Daelim Industrial and Belgium’s Dredging...
February 26th, 20150Taipei: Taiwan International Ports Corporation is to actively cooperate with Southeast Asian countries and set up new container companies this year to boost its shipping...
February 26th, 20150Jakarta: Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo is setting up a taskforce to speed up turnaround times at the nation’s ports. Turnaround times in the archipelago average...
February 25th, 20150Mumbai: Port and dock workers all over India will go on an indefinite strike from March 9 to protest against the government’s move to corporatise major ports. A...
February 24th, 20150New Delhi: The Indian government is working on an ambitious plan to build one smart city at each of the country’s 12 major ports, at an aggregate investment of...
February 24th, 20150Thiruvananthapuram: Dismayed at the absence of response to the Vizhinjam port and container transhipment project, the Kerala state government has offered to talk to the...
February 23rd, 20150Thiruvananthapuram: No bids have been received by Vizhinjam International Seaport Ltd (VISL) for the port and a 600,000 teu capacity container transhipment terminal,...
February 23rd, 20150New Delhi: Surface transport and shipping minister Nitin Gadkari has said that the Indian government will invest INR5trn ($80bn) each in the shipping and highways...
February 23rd, 20150Cairo: Libya has restarted oil exports from the eastern port of Zueitina after 11-month suspension and is also testing a pipeline to restart exports from Hariga...
Ports and Logistics
