Tag: port projects

Russia plans to develop Caspian ports

Caspian ports

The Russian Government has accepted The Strategy of the development of the Caspian Sea ports until year 2030, informs PortNews agency. The Strategy involves the development of the Russian Caspian transport hub and its integration in the world trade, with Iran, India and the Gulf countries in particular. Today, the Caspian ports – Astrakhan, Olya, […]

Helium logistic hub to be created at Russian Far East

helium logistic hub

Gazprom Gazenergoset Heliy, a branch of Russian energy group of companies Gazprom, intends to develop a logistic hub for handling containers loaded with helium in Primorye, Russian Far East, informs today the press service of Russia’s Ministry of the development of the Far East. The facility is to be constructed at the advanced development area Nadezhdinskaya […]

Pakistan’s first coal terminal inaugurated

Port Qasim

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi inaugurated the country’s first dedicated coal, clinker and cement terminal at Port Qasim on October 14, informs local media. At the official ceremony, Prime Minister said that the state-of-the-art facility would facilitate cement and clinker exports. Pakistan International Bulk Terminal (PIBT) was commissioned in early May this year and has […]

Georgia to begin construction of Anaklia deep sea port in December

Anaklia port

The construction of the Anaklia port in Georgia will commence at the end of December 2017, informs Georgia’s Commersant quoting Zurab Alavidze, the Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure. “The construction of this port will enable us to use our transit potential completely. The Government is involved in the process because this is a public-private […]

Japan helps Mombasa to expand its second container terminal

Mombasa container terminal

The government of Kenya signed a loan agreement with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for a loan of Sh35 bln (approx. USD 340 mln) for construction of Phase II of the second container terminal at the port of Mombasa, informs Construction Business Review. According to the Kenya Ports Authority managing director Catherine Mturi-Wairi, the […]

P&O Ports begins running Sete container terminal in 2018

Sete container terminal

P&O Ports, a subsidiary of Dubai government’s Ports, Customs and Free Zones Corporation (PCFC), will start operating the container terminal in the Port of Sète in the south of France in early 2018, writes GulfNews. Earlier, in July, P&O Ports won a three-year management contract to operate the port’s container terminal with a draft of […]

Hambantota port development project halted?

Hambantota port development

The Hambantota Port Development, a China Merchants Port Holdings (CMPort) project on the southeast coast of Sri Lanka, has stalled at the Framework Agreement stage, reports Sri Lankan News First. According to the report, the Chinese Ambassador Yi Xianliang said “No progress” when questioned yesterday, October 1, on the completion dates of the project. The […]

PSA to change JNPT logistic links

PSA JNPT

A small Indian barge port Dharamtar located about 24 km from Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) will be brought back to life when Singapore’s PSA International opens its Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals (BMCT) in December 2017, informs The Hindu BusinessLine. This week, BMCT has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with PNP Maritime Services Pvt […]

Lavna coal terminal calls for strategic investor

Lavna coal terminal

The State Transport Leasing Company (STLC), set up by the Russian Ministry of Transport to control the development of the Russian transport industry, is seeking a strategic investor for the construction of the coal terminal “Lavna” at the northern port of Murmansk, informs TASS News Agency. Lavna coal handling complex is a green field project […]

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