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Chennai: Port Wings News Network: Abu Dhabi Ports on 12 September 2020 announced Khalifa Port’s expansion is on pace for completion. The Khalifa Port expansion, announced in December 2019, aims to attract new business and significantly boost capacity in line with evolving customer expectations, and has progressed significantly since its …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: As part of his visits to gain first-hand knowledge of business potential and the progress achieved by industrial zones in the region, Mr. TAGA Masayuki, Consul General of Japan in Chennai, on 14 September 2020 visited Sri City SEZ. Mr. Ravindra Sannareddy, Founder Managing Director, …

New Delhi: Port Wings News Network: Despite the pandemic, Indian exporters have started receiving a lot of enquiries and orders from across the globe helping many sectors to show improved export performance, which is likely to get better in next few months, Mr S K Saraf, President, FIEO, has said. …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: Gothenburg City Council on 10 September 2020 passed a resolution to grant more than 1,2 billion kronor (€120,000,000) to finance the Skandia Gateway project, which is aimed at deepening the fairway leading into the Port of Gothenburg. The sum was matched by the Swedish Transport …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCI) has participated in a global tender for “Post monsoon maintenance dredging at New Mangalore Port for the years 2020-21, 2021-22 & 2022-23” invited by New Mangalore Port (NMPT), Karnataka during May 2020. DCI has successfully bagged the project under …

New Delhi: Port Wings News Network: Union Minister of State for Shipping (I/C) Shri Mansukh Mandaviya on 10 September 2020 launched ‘SAROD-Ports’ (Society for Affordable Redressal of Disputes – Ports) through virtual ceremony in New Delhi. Speaking at the launching, Shri Mansukh Mandaviya termed SAROD-Ports as a game changer and …

Port Wings, 9 Sept 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially cruel on seafarers, often trapped on ships for months on end far away from their loved ones. Those who were looking forward to going home in around March or April basically couldn’t, as permission for crew changes were denied …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: The first transit container train from Xi’an, China, has arrived at its final destination – the BILK terminal in Budapest, Hungary. The order for the transportation was handled using the Freight Transport electronic trading platform (ETP FT). The train loaded with 41 forty-foot containers with …

Mumbai: Port Wings News Network: Shri Sanjay Sethi, IAS, Chairman of India’s premier container port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), shared his valuable insights in a refreshing roundtable interaction on the role of JNPT and the port sector in ‘Strengthening Logistics- Positioning India in the Global Supply Chain’. The roundtable …

New Delhi: Port Wings News Network: On a mission mode, Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) of Indian Railways is gathering speed. Constant weekly monitoring and meetings with all stake holders lead to acquisition of patches and sections of land which were long delayed. Indian Railways even deployed its experts to assist …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: The first single-destination train made up of 50 forty-foot containers from the city of Shenyang in the Chinese province of Liaoning passed through the Grodekovo border station (Far Eastern Railway) to the Bely Rast terminal and logistics center (Moscow Oblast). The intermodal delivery for container …

Mumbai: Port Wings News Network: Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), India’s premier container port, in a major push and with a vision of augmenting the ports training abilities, superior training outcomes for the pilots, have upgraded to the latest technology for navigation & vessel maneuvering training. This enhancement ship maneuvering …

New Delhi: Port Wings News Network: The Ministry of Shipping has directed all major ports to procure or charter tug boats which are only made in India.  All procurements being done by major ports would now need to be carried out as per the revised ‘Make in India’ Order. The …

Mumbai: Port Wings News Network: Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), India’s premier container port continued its steady surge in cargo handling with the easing of lockdown restrictions and pick up in the domestic economic activity. This progress indicates early signs of recovery which is very significant during the ongoing pandemic …