International ports

New Delhi’s interest in Trincomalee could be a response to China’s growing influence in the Indian Ocean.

Competition among ports in the region is heating up.

Overall throughput increased 1.5 percent.

The largest cranes at the ports of Kobe and Osaka can now serve ships with 22 rows and 18 rows of containers, respectively.

The northeast Brazilian port of Suape is seeking developers of what could become the country’s most valued container terminal.

Container traffic at the port of Rotterdam grew 8.8 percent in the first three months of the year, the biggest ever quarterly increase.

The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund will announce the winner at the next meeting of its directors.

The goal, critical to government efforts to cut logistics costs and lift port productivity, had seemed unattainable.

Turning Mariel into a major transshipment or transit port would require changes in US restrictions.

Footwear importers encounter logistics challenges as they source outside of China.

The liner giant is using “river sea” category vessels to transport exports out of the Pangaon Inland Container Terminal (PICT).

A strike would impact supply chains as the Narendra Modi government vigorously works to stimulate economic growth.

Converting cargo from road to rail, aimed at easing chronic congestion at Chennai Port, continues to be a struggle.

Traffic at major ports, which account for 70 percent of India’s container trade, increased 3 percent year-over-year.

The parking lot should be up and running by some time in 2019.

Container throughput at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) hit an all-time high in fiscal year 2016 to 2017.

The depot opens another intermodal link for the country’s dominantly industrialized northwestern hinterlands.

Container traffic at the port of Kobe was the highest since 1995, when a devastating earthquake hit the port city.

Technology aims to reduce wait times at India's busiest container gateway.

Greenock Ocean Terminal is deepest Scottish container terminal renowned around the world for its exports of Scotch whisky.

CMA CGM said the terminal has achieved an average gross berth productivity of more than 160 moves per hour.

New equipment at Tecon Rio Grande worth $40 million should help the south Brazilian port handle growing volume.

The successful bidder will be obliged to invest 180 million euros in the port over seven years.

DP World is brimming with confidence about future prospects in the emerging Asian economy.

India’s major ports face a fresh threat of labor stoppages.

Brazilian meat shippers have suffered another blow.

China’s container ports got off to a strong start in 2017.

The bids for a 40-year operating concession will be submitted to the London office of US investment bank Morgan Stanley.

The SEZ is designed with a 494-acre site for processing activities and a 190-acre zone for non-processing operations.

The system will help increase the number of New Panamax ships that can pass through the Panama Canal from an average of five a day at present.

The gains came despite draft restrictions and strikes by customs officers and stevedores.

Wan Hai Lines is focusing on new growth areas in India.

Unprecedented consolidation of ocean carriers and the restructuring of global vessel-sharing alliances from four to three is wreaking havoc on several smaller Brazilian container terminals.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust more than doubled its direct port delivery shipments in February.

Congestion at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust cut deeply into container volumes moving via India’s major public ports.

The project cost 94.2 million euros ($99.8 million).

Nearly half of India’s total container trade moves through JNPT.

The action underscores how intensely authorities are focused on achieving operational efficiencies and cost reductions at JNPT.

Its container volume more than halved in 2011 following the devastating earthquake and tsunami.