International ports

Gujarat Pipavav Port, owned by APM Terminals in India, has upgraded its rail infrastructure and is now able to carry double-stack, high-cube containers on trains.

Rotterdam’s container traffic grew 1 percent in the first half of the year, but total throughput dipped 0.9 percent, the first decline at Europe’s largest port in three years.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority said first half profit was unchanged from a year ago. Lower ship dues were offset by higher rental revenue.

The Port of Halifax in Nova Scotia has welcomed the Berlin Express, one of Hapag Lloyd’s three super-post-Panamax vessels with 7,506 20-foot-equivalent units of capacity.

Allard Castelein, a Royal Dutch Shell executive, has been appointed chief executive officer of the Port of Rotterdam Authority.

Antwerp’s container traffic declined 1.7 percent in the first half of 2013 from a year earlier, but total throughput was 2 percent higher.

U.S. apparel importers are weighing whether the threat of bad publicity that could come from factory disasters in Bangladesh offsets savings gained by sourcing in the South Asian country.

Rail Service Center Rotterdam at the Netherlands’ Port of Rotterdam today celebrated handling its 5 millionth cargo unit since 1993.

A go-slow campaign by dockworkers has affected normal operations at the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal in India’s Port of Cochin, according to local shipping sources.

From January through June, Lithuania’s Port of Klaipėda and Būtingės terminal handled 196,722 20-foot-equivalent units, improving 7.4 percent from 183,141 TEUs in the same period last year.

Cargo volume through Liberia’s port of Monrovia doubled in 2012, after work to expand the terminal led to a jump in the number of ships calls, according to the port’s manager, Reuters reports.

Associated British Ports signed a £70 million ($106 million) loan facility with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to partially finance the development of a container terminal at the port of Southampton.

An alliance of 17 North American retailers today unveiled the Bangladesh Worker Safety Initiative, a binding-five year agreement that aims to improve factory safety conditions in Bangladesh.

South Korea’s port of Busan is making preparations for the maiden call of a Maersk Triple E container vessel next week.

Karel De Gucht, the European Union’s trade commissioner; Dipu Moni, Bangladesh’s foreign minister; and Guy Ryder, director-general of the International Labour Organisation, have co-launched...

Container volumes at major ports in India slipped 4 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of fiscal year 2013-14, the Indian Ports Association said in a statement.

The Panama Canal Authority is studying the construction of a fourth set of new locks that would accommodate super post-Panamax vessels, which would run parallel to the third set of locks currently under construction, as part of its $5.2 billion expansion project, according to Breakbulk, JOC’s sister publication.

The Canadian government is providing funding up to C$225,000 (about US$212,813) through the APGCI Transportation Infrastructure Fund for a container transshipment and short-sea shipping feasibility study at Port Alberni, British Columbia.

Malaysia’s Kuantan Port is expected to start laying foundations for a major expansion next year.

Cargo throughput at India’s Mumbai Port slipped 14 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of fiscal year 2013-14, the port authority said in a statement.

Slowdowns by container truck drivers over wage increases threaten to disrupt normal operations at the APM Terminals facility in India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva).

The opportunity for East Coast container ports to gain significant market share from their West Coast counterparts is over and unlikely to appear again, despite their growth expectations tied to the expansion of the Panama Canal, an outspoken supply chain analyst said Friday.

The Chennai Port Trust has cancelled a global tender to build and operate its long-planned container terminal project, dealing a serious blow to India’s port privatization program.

Mexico’s port cargo traffic is expected to increase 80 percent to 508 million tons per year by the end of the government’s current six-year administration in 2018...

The new extension to Container Terminal 2, operated by DP World at Jebel Ali Port in the United Arab Emirates, has officially opened with the arrival of the...

United Waalhaven Terminals and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have reached agreement on the construction of a new quay on Bunshotenweg in the Netherlands.

Greece is mulling bringing forward the sale of the country’s main ports, Piraeus and Thessaloniki, and the state railway, to cover a shortfall in its privatization budget.

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Visibility in the waters around Kertih Port in Malaysia could be significantly reduced as a result of haze coming from forest fires in Sumatra, Indonesia, according to Inchcape Shipping Services.

The Panama Canal has received the first two of 14 tugboats that will help strengthen the waterway’s capacity for the operation of its third set of locks.

India’s Mumbai Port Authority has issued a request for qualification from interested bidders for the construction of a new “offshore multi-purpose cargo berth.”

The European Commission today decided to refer Spain to the European Union Court of Justice regarding its rule on hiring port labor in several Spanish ports.

Local agents of container lines have expressed skepticism and concern over a decision by India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru to develop its fourth container terminal project with “one mega terminal” instead of two separate facilities.

Ningbo Port and APM Terminals have signed an agreement to jointly invest in and operate berths 3, 4 and 5 at the Chinese port’s Meishan Container Terminal.

The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, a container-handling port in India, and Nhava Sheva Gateway Terminal, a subsidiary of DP World at Jawaharlal Nehru Port, today signed a concession agreement for the development of a...

The European Commission’s social dialogue committee in the port sector launched today in Brussels with port authorities, terminal operators, dockers and other port workers across the European Union.

The Nicaragua National Assembly has ratified the government’s commercial agreement with HKND Group to develop the Nicaragua Canal and Development Project.

The U.S. has threatened to ban ships from entering Nigeria unless the sub-Saharan African nation improves security in its ports and waterways, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.