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Companies

JNPT container traffic rises 6% in April-September period

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) records 6.19% rise in cargo handling to 2.4 million units in the first half of the current fiscal

1 min read12 Oct 2017
Opinion

Move to landlord port model means privatizing state-run cargo berths

While there is a logical basis to privatize state-run cargo berths to facilitate the move to a landlord concept of port ownership, it is anybody's guess how this will pan out

4 min read2 Sep 2016
Opinion

Kandla port rises to the occasion, reaches 100-mt mark in cargo handling

The efficiency and productivity improvement measures taken by Kandla port have started yielding results

4 min read8 Apr 2016
Opinion

Port PPP document needs refinement

Model concession pact being used to construct cargo handling projects with private funds needs refinement to make it attractive for private investments

3 min read30 Oct 2015
Opinion

The Burman effect on stevedoring

Following a sustained campaign, the government has decided that stevedoring and shore handling agent permits will henceforth be sold on basis of revenue share

5 min read4 Sep 2015
Companies

Continental Warehousing eyes infusion of $100 million

The Warburg Pincus-backed firm plans to use the money to expand its network in the logistics business

3 min read11 Jun 2015
Companies

Container terminal operators spurn ministry’s rebid offer

Firms had sought government approval to move to a more favourable rate regime to fix commercial issues

3 min read13 Apr 2015
Companies

Ripley quotes highest royalty for handling cargo at Haldia

The stevedoring firm was bidding for the first tender run by the Kolkata Port Trust to select dry bulk cargo handling agents

1 min read26 Jan 2015
Industry

Govt set for unified licensing of cargo handling agents

The shipping ministry will frame rules to issue a unified permit to cargo-handlers at non-mechanized berths at ports owned by the Union govt

2 min read26 Sep 2014
Opinion

Government bid to regulate stevedores, on-shore cargo agents ends in litigation

India's bid to regulate cargo-handling agents who load and unload cargo at non-mechanized berths at govt-owned ports has landed in the courts

4 min read21 Aug 2014
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