International ports

International Container Terminal Services Inc. is set to open its new Melbourne terminal in January.

"The city looks like a war torn area. It will take at least a week to restore normalcy.”

Cyclone Vardah left devastating damage to India’s eastern seaboard on Monday.

The proposed Novaporte project at Sydney and a rival one at Melford, 200 miles across Cape Breton Island, have been trying for several years to attract investors and dispel industry skepticism about their prospects.

More unrest is on the way to the quays of Brazilian ports as the union representing customs officers accelerates ongoing labor actions that have plagued shippers since summer.

Terminal operators continue to drive up prices for their services at Russian ports despite the intense scrutiny of the country’s competition regulator.

Efficiency gains as a result of direct port delivery services and other measures are helping Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust slash on-terminal dwell times that have long been frustrating and costing shippers using India’s biggest container gateway.

The port of Rotterdam said it will make risk-bearing financial investments in selected companies that help to reduce its carbon footprint as part of a major strategy to transition the port to a carbon neutral environment and renewable energy hub.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust shippers are showing keener interest in direct port delivery services that greatly improve port productivity.

India’s major, or public, ports booked strong growth in container volumes in November.

In order to draw in more international and national investors, the Brazilian government is poised to extend its minimum period for port concessions.

Russian and global transport companies are in a heated fight for control of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port, Russia’s largest stevedore company.

The Port of Rotterdam has increased the discount for transshipped containers for the third year running.

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.