Asia

Cosco is looking into the possibility of establishing a major new transhipment hub in the Philippines, which would require investment of up to $3bn.

Konsortium Logistik Bhd, a consortium of senior executives, and a listed state company have all bid to take over Malaysias Penang Port Sdn Bhd. 

Drewry Shipping Consultants has warned of an imminent serious global container terminal capacity shortage in its Annual Review of Global Container Terminal Operators 2007.

China’ s Ministry of Communications predicts that domestic ports will be handling 6bn tonnes by 2020 compared with 3.95bn tonnes in 2006. It also anticipates an increase in the amount of foreign…

Russia is to invest $1.2bn on a new dry port in the Krasnodar region as a means of reducing the amount of domestic coal and containers shipped from ports in Ukraine. The…

Six foreign companies and nine Indian companies have indicated in interest in the project to develop a RoRo car terminal at the port of Chennai costing € 142m ($193.7m). This will be…

A lack of concrete progress on many of Vietnam’ s proposed port projects is being blamed on consultants.