Transshipment traffic is the cargo that is transported between an Indian port and an international “hub” port, when direct mainline connections are not available.

In a recent letter to the Bangladesh High Commission in Kolkata, India's Kolkata Port Trust chairman Vinit Kumar expressed his consent to let Bangladeshi shippers use the ports it oversees — the Kolkata Dock System and Haldia Dock Complex.

India’s efforts to bring down cargo dwell times as part of a larger ease-of-doing-business program have yet to translate into steady improvements.

India’s GDP growth plummeted to a three-year low of 5.7 percent in the first fiscal quarter, and slower GDP growth is likely in the cards for the second quarter.

India’s major, or public, ports together account for roughly 70 percent of the country’s total container trade.

Indian authorities and labor federations are inching toward an agreement that would avert threatened work stoppages.

A consortium of seven labor federations had earlier served notice of a nationwide strike from April 19, but later agreed to defer the action until May 12.

Unions are protesting a reform of major port trusts through new legislation dubbed the Major Ports Authority Bill 2016.

Congestion at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust cut deeply into container volumes moving via India’s major public ports.

India’s major, or public, ports are slowly regaining market share lost to their so-called minor, or private, rivals over the past few years.

In another big-ticket reform initiative, India’s union cabinet on Wednesday approved new legislation meant to transform major, or public, ports into independent companies.

The government of India has released a “progress report” on its ambitious Sagar Mala investment program.

Productivity and capacity improvements via the government's Sagar Mala investments are beginning to produce results.

India is rolling out more trade-facilitating measures to speed up cargo flows and ease congestion at major ports.

The immediate impact of a 24-hour nationwide strike underway Friday in India reportedly has been less severe than previously feared on the nation’s transport systems.

India’s maritime administrator is showing no sign of backing down from its previous diktat barring container terminal operators from offering container weighing services on-site for a fee.

Traffic at major, or public, Indian ports rose in the first four months of the fiscal year, but growth could have been higher.