International ports

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.

Chabahar is a commercial and geopolitically strategic rival to the port of Gwadar in Pakistan, which is at the center of a $45 billion investment by China to develop a trade and transport corridor.

The Port of Felixstowe, the busiest in the United Kingdom, has outlined pricing for its container weighing service.

After recording sluggish growth last fiscal year amid a weaker global economy, India’s major public ports got off to a healthy and promising start in fiscal 2016 and 2017.

The government of India is looking to automate gate transactions at the country's major ports.

The government of Pakistan is introducing extensive long-term tax concessions for Chinese companies operating at the port of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea.

The Port of Hamburg’s container traffic shrank in the first quarter as breakbulk traffic stalled.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, India’s biggest public container handler, is aggressively working to lure more truckload freight to the rails.

Throughput growth at China’s main ports increased at a slower rate in April than in March.

India and Iran on Monday entered into a formal investment agreement for Chabahar port, the first such agreement involving an Iranian port and international backers since the lifting of sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear program.

Strike actions that paralyzed France last week have cut off rail access to the port of Le Havre.

Several world regions seem to have planned much more container terminal capacity than needed for the coming decades.

The major China export gateway of Yantian will offer container weighing services to help shippers comply with the SOLAS container weight rule.

The Panama Maritime Authority has reached an agreement with a Chinese consortium on Panama's first post-Panamax capable container terminal.

Service upgrades and additions were not enough to propel Pipavav Port to growth in the last fiscal year.

Cuba’s Mariel container terminal has already planned its transformation into a major transshipment hub after the U.S. trade embargo ends, according to TC Mariel General Director Charles Baker.

India’s role in the development of the free trade port of Chabahar in southeastern Iran will be high on the agenda when Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins a two-day visit to the country next week.

Latin America and Caribbean terminal operators will face different national rules regarding the SOLAS container weight verification rule, adding another layer of difficulty to an already tricky process.

The Brazilian port sector’s worst nightmare has become a reality with the government’s announcement that the Special Ports Ministry, or SEP, would be subsumed by the Transport Ministry as part of a cost-saving initiative.

France’s ports, railways and airports face shutdown.

India is accelerating its drive for private investment in its ports and maritime sectors.

The urgently needed dredging of the entrance channel to the port of Santos in Brazil is slowly edging toward reality after a multitude of delays.

China’s Cosco Pacific is buying a stake in Rotterdam’s Euromax container terminal from Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings.