Port of Kolkata

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.