International ports

The 2M Alliance plans to shift one of their Asia-to-U.S. East Coast services to the newly expanded Panama Canal.

Russia’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service is investigating the country’s leading terminal operators over price-fixing allegations.

Antwerp Port Authority announced the appointment of the previous head of Belgium’s national electrical company as its new chief executive officer.

The projects are part of a long-term government program to more than double the country’s overall port capacity.

The port of Rotterdam will introduce a “paperless” transfer of containers between its major terminals.

DP World is upgrading its Nhava Sheva (India) Gateway Terminal, or NSIGT, at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust.

The Port of Hamburg suffered a setback after European Union envoys agreed to extend sanctions on Russia.

A coordinated effort, coupled with rail upgrades and gate automation, is driving significant benefits for shippers using terminals at Chennai Port.

Container throughput at China’s top ports stayed positive in May.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, India’s biggest public container handler, which experienced heavy congestion for much of last year, is turning things around.

Liberia’s Port of Monrovia implemented a new port navigation system.

More draft restriction due to a lack of dredging is preventing three marine terminals at the Brazilian port of Santos from handling fully loaded 9,000-TEU ships.

Reliable partners are key to shipper success.

Chennai Port has overcome much of its access problems that have contributed to long truck queues.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust said unscheduled gate closings by private terminals in India’s busiest container harbor have added to congestion.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is intensely focusing on productivity improvements.

A new port at Anaklia will be able to handle the ships that Georgia's top ports of Poti and Batumi cannot.

A new Panama Canal container route to the U.S. Gulf from Asia will replace and build on an intermodal rail service that Maersk Line launched via Mexico.

Chennai shippers who have long been subjected to major cargo delays amid landside bottlenecks may soon see improvements.

Shareholders of Greece’s Piraeus Port Authority approved a concession agreement with Cosco Shipping Group.

The port of Liverpool will offer container weighing services to help its customers comply with a new international regulation that comes into effect on July 1.

Russia’s containerized trade is recovering after a bruising from Western economic sanctions and low oil prices.

Gate automation at terminals in the Chennai Port will increase productivity.

Ports, shippers and politicians from the Brazilian state of São Paulo are lobbying the government to appoint a technocrat to the country’s national port administration.

Container terminals in Brazil are hashing out pricing policies for enabling shipper compliance with an international container weight rule that enters force July 1.

CentrePort in the New Zealand capital of Wellington is pushing for a deepening project despite shipper recommendations.

Container volumes at India’s major public ports are growing steadily after a sluggish performance last fiscal year.

The Panama Canal Authority will determine whether its third set of locks where leaks were found are functional.

India’s port regulator has tentatively allowed Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust to charge tolls for truck cargo, but the matter is not yet settled.

Southeast Asia’s infrastructure is emerging as a major beneficiary of China’s Belt and Road initiative.

The Suez Canal has extended and deepened discounts to container lines.

An inter-terminal truck transfer system at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has had success.

The government of Myanmar is searching for a solution to crushing congestion at the Port of Yangon.

China’s Landbridge Group said it would invest in a major expansion of Australia’s Darwin Port.

The Port of Chennai said it has completed a dredging project to make it the deepest in India, but it is holding off on plans to build an outer harbor because of slumping traffic.

Japan has agreed to provide financial support for a new international port development project in Indonesia.

The First Container Terminal is Russia's first container terminal to announce a plan to provide container weighing services.

Switzerland will open the world’s longest rail tunnel June.

South Korea’s ports registered declines in throughput in container and overall tonnage volumes in April.

India is taking a range of port-related actions to make trade processes more efficient and improve its ranking in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business survey and report.