Jawaharlal Nehru Port Makes Way for Bigger Ships

Indian port operator Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) has awarded a joint venture of Royal Boskalis Westminster and Jan De Nul with a USD 250 million contract for the deepening and widening of the access channel towards Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai.

UNITE : ‘Only the people of Greece have suffered a bigger fall in living standards during austerity’, says Unite

Commenting on the latest jobless and earnings figures which again confirm that work in the UK is failing to pay, Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite the union said: ‘Only the people of Greece have suffered a bigger fall in living standards during th

Iron Ore Is Bigger Concern for BHP Debt Holders Than Singer

Hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer’s push for a strategy change at BHP Billiton is rattling debt investors in the world’s biggest miner much less than iron ore’s slide into a bear market.

China urged to play bigger role in setting global commodity prices

As China pledges to internationalise its futures markets, the country should open commodity futures trading to foreign participants and play a bigger role in setting global prices for metal, energy, and agricultural commodities, according to industry play

A Bigger Pie – Can You Get A Good Slice?

With the ClarkSea Index around $9,000/day, and many if not most of the major shipping markets under severe pressure

Asian pirates focus on bigger ships off Philippines in hope of securing bigger ransom payments

Asian pirates are focusing more of their attacks on larger merchant ships near the Philippines, hoping for bigger ransom payments from kidnapping their crew, the head of a regional anti-piracy body said on Friday.

Will the equation: “bigger canal + bigger ships = more transhipment” work for Panama’s Pacific coast?

Plans for life after the expansion of the Panama Canal in 2016 are becoming firmer. Details of the...