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DP World’s new container terminal in Port Qasim near Karachi in Pakistan has officially opened, extending capacity at the port to 1.2m teu from around 900,000 teu.

21st January 2011

Qasim’s Terminal 2 opens

21st January 2011

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ASIA

Taiwan is to conditionally allow Chinese businesses to invest in build-operate-transfer projects at its ports from this year, according to government officials.

12th January 2011

Green light for Chinese investment in Taiwanese ports

12th January 2011

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ASIA

Statistics from the Yangtze River Administration show that throughput of general cargo via the major ports along the Yangtze trunk line has been growing substantially.

23rd December 2010

Yangtze throughput rise

23rd December 2010

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ASIA

Dry bulk shipper Thoresen Thai Agencies is to spend some 346.38m baht ($12m) to buy a strategic stake in Vietnam’s Baria Serece, which controls Phu My port, it has confirmed.

15th December 2010

Thai shipper buys into Vietnamese port

15th December 2010

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ASIA

India’s Vizhinjam Port has invited tender bids from the 31 companies that submitted expressions of interest for operating the proposed port.

15th December 2010

Third time’s a charm for Vizhinjam

15th December 2010

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ASIA

Karachi Port Trust has reduced port fees by 20% as a means of attracting more customers. The port will now charge $2.34 per TEU and $0.14 for every non-containerised ton.

11th December 2010

Karachi cuts port fees

11th December 2010

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ASIA

China is backing construction of a new deep sea port at Sonadia, near Coxs Bazar in Bangladesh, and a project to build a new highway from the Indian port of Chittagong to…

11th December 2010

China to fund Bangladesh projects

11th December 2010

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ASIA

Vietnam is trying to attract both national and international investors in its public-private-partnership initiative for ports.

10th December 2010

Foreign investment drive for Vietnamese ports

10th December 2010

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ASIA

Indias Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has given the green light for a project to build a large new container terminal in the port of Chennai. This will require investment of $800m and…

8th December 2010

Third Chennai box terminal approved

8th December 2010

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ASIA

Philippine Port Authority (PPA) is to privatise five ports in Visayas and Mindanao as a means of attracting private sector investment in infrastructure projects. To be put out to tender are Davao,…

7th December 2010

The Philippines pushes full privatisations

7th December 2010

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ASIA

New Mangalore Port Trust is reconsidering how to attract investors to build a new container terminal.

6th December 2010

New Mangalore box terminal to rise from ashes

6th December 2010

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ASIA

Bangladeshs Shipping Minister has put forward plans to boost efficiency at the port of Chittagong by the end of 2010, kick-starting the project with consultations with stakeholders.

3rd December 2010

Chittagong efficiency in the firing line

3rd December 2010

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ASIA

The ports division of Essar Shipping Ports & Logistics Ltd has announced a revenue increase of 53% for the quarter, year-on-year.

2nd December 2010

Revenue up for Essar

2nd December 2010

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ASIA

PSA-Sical has approached Indias Supreme Court to overturn an exclusion on bidding for the concession to convert Berth 8 at the port of Tuticorin into a container terminal. Given that the company…

30th November 2010

PSA-Sical challenges Tuticorin exclusion

30th November 2010

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ASIA

APM Terminals is looking at possible Chinese river port ventures, specifically in the Yangtze.

25th November 2010

Yangtze venture on the cards for APMT

25th November 2010

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ASIA

In a surprising move, government officials in Cambodia have not named the country’s major hub in its role call of national assets likely to list.

17th November 2010

Sihanoukville left out in the cold

17th November 2010

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ASIA

The World Bank has endorsed $115.8 million for the Karachi Port Improvement Project.

4th November 2010

Karachi investment

4th November 2010

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ASIA

Only one of 12 ports offered by Indonesias National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) has received interest from potential investors as part of potential public-private partnerships.

3rd November 2010

Disinterest in Indonesian projects

3rd November 2010

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ASIA

The north-eastern Chinese port of Tianjin is planning a $1.95bn expansion. This will also involve the creation of an extensive logistics network, connecting it to 16 inland ports. For this year, the…

3rd November 2010

Tianjin in major expansion project

3rd November 2010

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ASIA

Just a single investor has responded to the Kerala governments tender aimed at finding a private sector partner to help develop the port of Ponnani, Chennai-based High Valley Infra Projects. An estimated…

28th October 2010

Single bid for Ponnani development

28th October 2010