International ports

Container volumes at major ports surged in the first month of fiscal year 2017 to 2018.

The value of recently shunned Panamax container ships is growing faster than other vessel sizes.

Vancouver and Prince Rupert are increasing their terminal capacity and improving their cargo-handling efficiency as they look to take additional market share from US West Coast ports.

The expansion project will cost $80 million.

The Manila-based infrastructure lender will complete a fact finding report on the request by the end of this month.

New port data compiled by JOC.com shows JNPT’s throughput in April surged 12.6 percent.

The port will temporarily suspend operations at all terminals on Monday because of a power outage meant for electrical upgrades in the harbor.

"Port Klang will be the big loser as a result of the alliance shifts.”

The west coast hosts three dominant private, or minor, container facilities that compete with JNPT.

Under the agreement, the French carrier’s subsidiary CMA Terminals will operate the facility for 15 years.

The total value of the deal amounts to 1.1 billion euros.

Traffic at the port has doubled in five years.

The sold numbers come as other China government data indicates an improved trade and general economic environment.

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.