International ports

India’s Ministry of Shipping has concluded that to further lower dwell times at India’s busiest container port, support from others is essential.

Authorities at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust have been working harder than ever in the past few months to speed cargo flows and address shipper concerns, but that effort has yet to spur a major increase in volumes.

Port operators, shippers, and carriers in Brazil were preparing for a 24-hour strike by stevedores Wednesday that never materialized.

Qatar set up a joint venture to manage operations at its new $7.4 billion Hamad Port.

The deeply troubled container terminal Libra Terminais in the port of Santos is to lay off hundreds of workers.

The first phase of Qatar’s Hamad Port will begin full-fledged commercial operations Dec. 1, allowing the oil-rich country to expand its global ocean trade.

The government of India is accelerating its efforts to cut down container dwell times that have long been a major cause of port congestion and shipper concern over rising inland costs.

Surcharges have long been a subject of acrimonious debate between ocean transport service providers and shippers.

Collapse of Hanjin Shipping continues to take its toll on South Korea’s largest port.

Investment is part of an effort to grow port facilities into a large regional shipping and logistics hub.

Container traffic at Rio de Janeiro’s two container terminals is down nearly 20 percent from last year.

The Panama Canal has overtaken the Suez Canal as the favored transit route for carriers operating services between Asia and the US East Coast following the widening of the Central American waterway.

The top port last week issued a customer advisory calling on all cargo interests to do away with individual systems for issuing of delivery orders and instead migrate to a common electronic application, named e-DO, to facilitate trade.

Port says terminal will add 450,000 TEUs of annual capacity.

APL's intra-Asia service connects to China and South Korea.

Effort aimed at luring hinterland shippers away from trucks.

New deepsea transshipment port in the southern state of Tamil Nadu to be operational by 2020.

The Philippines approved the start of work on a proposed container port in Cebu.

The port of Hamburg consolidated its recovery from last year’s slump in container volume.

Scrap another 100 Panamax ships in the next couple of months if there is to be any rebalancing of supply and demand, Alphaliner warns.

Chennai Port Trust has extended a plan to lower rail costs.

More larger ships expected as carrier alliances revise schedules.

Mexico is surging ahead with the dramatic expansion of the Port of Veracruz in preparation for the trade increase expected from the country’s growing manufacturing base.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone is striving to replicate the success it’s had at its flagship Mundra Port at its new southeastern gateway of Kattupalli.

Hong Kong received a timely and stark reminder of the precarious position of its container port via a study from one of its main private business schools.

Customs officers in the Brazilian port of Santos have struck for two days straight, testing the mettle of the new President Michel Temer.

The government of India has released a “progress report” on its ambitious Sagar Mala investment program.

Container traffic through Iran’s major ports is soaring, as concerns rise on whether President-elect Donald Trump will follow through with a campaign promise to scrap a nuclear deal with the country and reimpose sanctions.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust shippers have shorter gate hours to drop off and pick up cargo.

The ports of Salvador and Suape are battling it out for Brazilian fruit exports.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has struggled to increase the share of rail used to get containers out of its facilities despite a slew of efforts to do so.

Container volumes at India’s major public ports are continuing to grow at a healthy pace thanks to capacity upgrades and productivity improvements.

New double-stack train services connecting Pipavav with northern hinterland points powered the year-over-year growth in shipments at the port.

The port of Liverpool on Friday officially inaugurated a new deep-sea container terminal as it works to create a new ocean trading gateway to re-jig the national supply chain.

Container throughput at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust only inched up in the first seven fiscal months through October.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and DB Cargo have agreed to develop a joint-venture hub at Monfalcone to support European vehicle manufacturers’ exports to the Mediterranean and Asia.

The steady brew of labor unrest at the port of Santos is hitting Brazilian coffee exports.

Illegal payments now account for more than half the cost of import and export processes through Nigeria’s ports.

The Brazilian port of Santos faces a new wave of strikes as backroom financial auditors for the customs agency join officers in the field that are already carrying out a nationwide strike impacting ports, airports, and border crossings.

Port officials in Manila said a new terminal appointment and booking system has substantially reduced the possibility of congestion that has plagued port facilities in the city for the past two years.