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PPP plan for Colombo’s East Container Terminal

News1 Feb 2016

Sri Lanka is to develop Colombo’s East Container Terminal, via a public-private partnership (PPP) that would leave the government with a m...

NELTI moves ahead

News1 Oct 2009

Launched in September 2008 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the International Road Transport Union (IRU)’s New Eurasian Land Transport Initiative ...

IR cleared to draw Japan loan

News1 Oct 2009

The Indian government has approved the terms of an overseas development assistance (ODA) loan from Japan to allow Indian Railways (IR) to st...

Toll expands again

News1 Jun 2009

Toll Holdings has continued its latest Asia-focused expansion drive by signing a 30-year concession to operate Cambodia’s railways....

Chittagong opts for STE

News1 Jun 2009

Bangladesh’s Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has awarded contracts worth S$12m (US$8.22m) to Singapore Technologies Electronics (STE) to s...

Routes in the Caspian Sea and Black Sea basins

News1 May 2009

Counterintuitively, the global economic crisis has revived several rail development projects in the Transcaucasus and Central Asia....

Colombo deadline extended

News1 May 2009

Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has extended the deadline for submitting proposals to build the first container terminal at the Port of Col...

Iran planning Armenia link

News1 Apr 2009

Iran has reached an agreement to build a cross-border rail link with Armenia to facilitate the flow of transit cargo. Tehran said it hopes t...

Interest high in Colombo

News1 Apr 2009

Fourteen potential investors have shown interest in building and operating the first container terminal at Colombo’s South Harbour develop...

Fresh call for Colombo bids

News1 Feb 2009

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has called for fresh bids for the construction of a new container terminal at the Port of Colombo follo...

ADB pulls the plug on scanners

News1 Jul 2008

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is refusing to provide funding for six container scanners being acquired by the Port of Chittagong, after t...

Hyundai bags Colombo deal

News1 Apr 2008

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering and Construction has won the US$377M contract to build a seawall and carry out dredging works to expand ...

Battle lines drawn in Colombo

News1 Nov 2007

The government of Sri Lanka is evaluating five bids to build and operate a 2.4M TEU/year container terminal at Colombo’s South Harbour dev...

Work starts on new box terminal in Colombo

News1 Jan 2007

Preliminary work has started on the long-awaited South Harbour expansion at Sri Lanka’s Port of Colombo that will increase its container h...

Colombo gets loan for South Harbour

News1 Sep 2006

Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide Sri Lanka with a US$225M loan to part-finance the construction of the longawaited Sou...

Private in Gwadar

News1 Jul 2005

Capt Anwar Shah, director-general of Pakistan’s Ports and Shipping Organisation, recently used the forum of an Asian Development Bank even...

PPP plan for Colombo’s East Container Terminal

NELTI moves ahead

IR cleared to draw Japan loan

Toll expands again

Chittagong opts for STE

Routes in the Caspian Sea and Black Sea basins

Colombo deadline extended

Iran planning Armenia link

Interest high in Colombo

Fresh call for Colombo bids

ADB pulls the plug on scanners

Hyundai bags Colombo deal

Battle lines drawn in Colombo

Work starts on new box terminal in Colombo

Colombo gets loan for South Harbour

Private in Gwadar

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Mixed results for CSX

Westports launches Westports 2 terminal expansion

People on the Move: Port Houston appoints CEO, Port of LA names Deputy Executive Director, changes at Maersk

ESPO, FEPORT push for mandatory OPS tax exemption

Florida ports halt vessel traffic amid Hurricane Helene

PPP plan for Colombo’s East Container Terminal

NELTI moves ahead

IR cleared to draw Japan loan

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Mixed results for CSX

Westports launches Westports 2 terminal expansion

People on the Move: Port Houston appoints CEO, Port of LA names Deputy Executive Director, changes at Maersk

ESPO, FEPORT push for mandatory OPS tax exemption

Florida ports halt vessel traffic amid Hurricane Helene

SAMSA: Smoke onboard Maersk ship, update on pharma material cleanup

USMX calls the ILA to the table

CMA CGM to acquire 48% stake in Santos Brasil

FMC urges industry to follow rules ahead of potential strikes

JAXPORT wins US$ 23m for crane upgrades