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Chennai: Port Wings News Network: Delhi Customs Brokers’ Association (DCBA) has elected its new managing committee for the ensuing two years at the 36th Annual General Meeting held on 24 November in Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi. The office bearers who have been elected are: Mr S Ramakrishna (President), Mr …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), through its Papua New Guinea (PNG) unit, ICTSI South Pacific Ltd., and its corporate citizenship arm, the ICTSI Foundation Inc., recently inaugurated a new police station in the Omili suburb in Lae. The PGK505,000 (US$149,000) facility, the second to …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: DP World Sokhna has celebrated its 10th anniversary by announcing it is near completion of a major expansion project that will bring DP World’s total investment in Egypt to $1.6 billion. Basin 2 will be operational by the second quarter of 2020 and nearly double …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: As part of its ongoing #WomenInSAR initiative and supporting the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) theme of empowering women, the International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) has held its first all-women maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) training in Morocco. The training was supported by the IMO and …

New Delhi: Port Wings News Network: Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State of Railways, Shri Suresh C. Angadi and Chairman, Railway Board, Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav along with other Members of Railway Board and senior Railway officials held a high-level review meeting with …

Paradip: Port Wings News Network: The Sports Council of Paradip Port Trust is organising the 68th Senior Inter District Volleyball (Men & Women) Championship-2019 under the auspices of Odisha Volleyball Association at Gopabandhu Stadium, Paradip from 23 to 26 November -2019. About 50 teams (Men & Women) of different district …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: Safmarine, an international container carrier focused on trade to and from emerging markets in Africa and West Central Asia, on 22 November issued an advisory for customers moving cargo to East Malaysia. Below is the reproduction of the advisory: Dear Valued Customer, As a step …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: PSA’s Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals (PSA Mumbai) and Gateway Rail Freight Limited (GRFL) held a trade meet in Gurugram, Haryana on 18 November 2019 to launch a weekly train service operated by GRFL between PSA Mumbai and GRFL’s Inland Container Depots (ICDs) in North India. …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: Adriatic Gate Container Terminal (AGCT), the Croatian subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) at the Port of Rijeka, recently welcomed the new Rijeka Land Sea Express, a weekly vessel and intermodal service linking Rijeka to Central European countries. Led by COSCO Shipping and …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: Ocean Network Express (ONE) initiated a Global Marine Safety and Quality Campaign during the months of September and October 2019, to reiterate marine navigation safety practices. A month prior to the campaign, ONE’s CEO – Jeremy Nixon, chaired a ‘Marine Safety and Quality Management Conference’ …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: Virgin Atlantic’s new flying programme for summer 2020 will give cargo customers more capacity on prime routes to India, Africa and the United States. The new schedule will see the introduction of a second daily Boeing 787 service to Delhi Indira Gandhi Airport, commencing on …

Port Wings, 20 Nov 2019: Ever since he took the office of the Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy for the second term in 2019, Mr Narendra Modi has been flying and flying most of the days. While the BJP Party and Modi’s hardcore supporters claims that his foreign …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: As part of DHL (www.DHL.com) Express’ commitment to innovation, the company launched a unique Multi-Channel Tool (MCT) that allows customers to interact with DHL Express via live chat and specialised email services. Hennie Heymans, CEO of DHL Express Sub Saharan Africa, said, “Customers benefit from …

Chennai: Port Wings News Network: Shri Arvind Singh, Chairman, Airports Authority of India (AAI) on his maiden visit to Chennai inaugurated the new gate management system at Chennai Airport on 19 November 2019. According to a media statement, the new system at boarding gates will enable the airline staff to …