What You Must Know About Vizhinjam Port

The shipping business is like the heaving sea -- it's up and down, observes Shyam G Menon. IMAGE: Police officers stand guard near the barricades during a protest by supporters of the proposed......

Heavy rains, strong winds batter Mumbai; signage atop BSE damaged

Incessant heavy rains and strong winds battered Mumbai and adjoining areas on Wednesday, disrupting traffic and damaging the signage atop the iconic Bombay Stock Exchange building. Gusty winds led......

Why Mumbai's mayor has become a nurse again

'It is time to give back to this city that has given me so much.' IMAGE: Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar in her nursing uniform. The mayor will serve as a frontline worker at Mumbai's B Y L Nair......

Coronavirus: 16k passengers holed up in ships at Indian ports

As many as 16,076 crew members and passengers onboard ships from China or having travelled to coronavirus-hit countries have been scanned and not allowed to disembark at Indian ports as a......

Sagarmala project: Poor planning on container traffic haunting shippers

Since January this year, Indian exporters have begun to dread the shipping news. That’s because most of it would be about another lot of shipping companies deciding to avoid Indian ports on......

Domestic warehousing struggles with reduced staff

JNPT, the country’s largest container port, would soon move into congestion if cargo does not get lifted by importers in the next few days. The domestic warehousing industry is facing......

India to get 13th major port at Vadhavan in Maharashtra

With development of the Vadhavan port, India will break into the countries with top 10 container ports in the world. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the setting up of the country’s......

India eyes 60% share of global ship recycling biz

Currently, India recycles around 300 of the 1,000 ships which are demolished per annum globally. However, countries like Japan, Europe and the US were not sending their ships for recycling to India......