Ports News

Vopak enters the fast growing Indian market through the acquisition of 100% of the shares in CRL Terminals Pvt. Ltd in the Port of Kandla from a domestic operator.

Every summer for three months, the Hudson Bay ice breaks up and ships load Canadian Prairie grain for export, putting more than 100 people to work in the tiny northern Manitoba town of Churchill.

Cargo traffic at Russian seaports in January-October this year rose 0.8% over the same period last year to 443.9 million tons, the Association of Sea Commercial Ports said.

Mexico reopened one of its three major oil-exporting ports in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday as bad weather eased.The port of Coatzacoalcos reopened but the other two major

As a Toyota sedan approaches a busy airport, an Israeli-developed vehicle identity recognition (VIR) system instantly gives security personnel a summary of the car's make and model,

The port of Livorno lost banana trade. The U.S. multinational Dole, historic customer of Livorno port wharfs, will use the ports of Civitavecchia and La Spezia in 2012, with a different transport

The shipping ministry has assured that the privatization of the mechanical ore handling division of the Mormugao Port Trust in Goa would only be a last resort.

International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has reported consolidated unaudited financial results for nine months ending 30 September 2011, posting revenue from port

The Sri Lankan government has continuously misled people over Hambantota Port, the main opposition United National Party (UNP) has said.Concern has been raised by the UNP over

Inventories of imported iron ore at major Chinese ports rose 1.5 percent this week to end at 96.3 million tonnes, up for the fourth consecutive week, data from industry consultancy Mysteel showed on Friday.

The Yangtze River Administration Authority expects container throughput of ports on the river is expected to top 10 million TEU by the end of this year while overall volume will hit 1.6 billion tonnes, Xinhua reports.

In recent times, Nigerian ports have started to show signs that the reforms initiated by the Federal Government over the years have started yielding fruits, writes John Iwori who has been following the developments

The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has announced next statistic data on Azeri oil export via main export pipeline Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) named after Heydar Aliyev.

Stakeholders in the maritime sector of the economy have flayed the continuous absence of a technical or commercial regulator in the nation’s seaports; six years after the ports

Container volume at North Carolina’s Port of Wilmington grew 2.7 percent in the quarter ending Sept. 30, helping push revenue at the N.C. State Ports Authority up 7 percent in the fiscal quarter.

The Nagapattinam Chamber of commerce has appealed to the Union Shipping Minister G K Vasan to take steps for modernising the Nagapattinam Port and also to commence

According to state-owned National Oil Corporation of Kenya (NOCK) a feasibility study is being conducted for the construction of a single buoy mooring, or offshore jetty to handle tankers up to 280,000 dwt.

Tanzania plans to more than double its handling capacity of petroleum products to 100,000 metric tons in May, when it opens a new offshore-anchored facility for

Emirates Shipping Line once again boosted its port congestion surcharges on containers shipped through India’s Port of Chennai.Effectively immediately,

Leighton Welspun Contractors has upgraded 70% of the Vishakhapatnam port project in India, which involves strengthening existing berth and extending it by