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This sea route covers a distance of approximately 5,647 nautical miles and will bring down transport time to 12 days, almost a third of what is taken under the existing popular route from St. Petersburg to Mumbai. India and Russia have scheduled a stakeholder meeting in September to work out...

As many as nine players have submitted Expression of Interest (EoI) for the international container transshipment port (ICTP) project at Great Nicobar Island, in the Bay of Bengal, as reported by ET Infra. Earlier in January 2023, the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways had invited EoI from interested parties to...

In a first-of-its-kind initiative for the cement sector in India, UltraTech Cement Limited has leveraged inland and coastal waterways to transport phosphogypsum consignment. The consignment of 57,000 metric tons (MT) of phosphogypsum was transported in a bulk cargo carrier from Paradeep port in Odisha and reached the jetty of UltraTech...

India's government-run shipbuilder, Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) has begun fabrication of its pilot Hydrogen Fuel Cell vessel. This is purportedly India’s first fully indigenous zero-emission fuel cell vessel project. CSL is partnering with an Indian software integration company, KPTI Technologies and Indian Registry of Shipping (IRS) to carry out the project. Furthermore, CSL...

A parliamentary committee has urged the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways to make more efforts to develop the Vadhavan Port rapidly. In its latest report, the department-related standing committee on Ports noted that three years have passed since the ‘in-principle’ approval of the port and hence more efforts are...

Dubai-based DP World has won the tender for building a Rs 4,243 crore mega container terminal at Tuna-Tekra in Deendayal Port (formerly Kandla Port). Hindustan Ports Pvt Ltd, the Indian unit of D P World Ltd, trounced Adani Group’s Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ), to win the...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil the foundation stone for a ship repair facility at Pandu Multi Modal terminal. The Ship Repair Facility - also known as the Slipway - is located at Pandu port on the southern bank of river Brahmaputra (National Waterway – 2) in Guwahati in the...

To transform into a major transshipment hub, the V O Chidambaranar Port in Thoothukudi — fourth-largest container port in India — is planning to build a third container terminal, The Hindu Business Line has reported. According to the report, the port trust plans to convert berth number nine into a new container...

India’s largest private port operator Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. (APSEZ) on Wednesday (27 March) stated that it had become India’s first port operator to handle cargo movement of over 200 million tonnes (MT) in 2018-19, a year ahead of schedule. “India’s largest private port operator...recorded cargo movement...

Afghanistan is all set to ship its first cargo of five containers to India through the Chabahar port within a months time, as per Iran’s ministry of Roads and Urban Development, reports DNA. The delivery of the cargo, containing mung beans and weighing about 22 tonne, will be carried out under the...