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Transnet denies CPPI findings, adds tugs

News14 Jun 2024

Transnet met with World Bank representatives to discuss the 2023 Container Port Performance Index, which highlighted the poor rankings for S...

Mozambique cabotage deal with French firm

News1 May 2018

France-based Peschaud has signed a deal to provide coastal cargo services between Mozambican ports....

Boost for Indian rail

News1 Aug 2017

The World Bank is to draw up plans for a US$77B makeover for the Indian Rail Network to transform it from a colonial era means of mass trans...

Concession extension for Dar

News23 Jul 2017

After years of criticism of its operations, Tanzania International Container Terminal Services’ (TICTS) concession to operate Dar es Salaa...

Boost for Dar es Salaam

News1 Feb 2017

Tanzania’s finance and planning minister, Philip Mpango, has announced that the World Bank has agreed to lend US$305M to the Port of Dar e...

WB funds East India corridor

News1 Jul 2015

The Washington DC-based World Bank has advanced a third loan to India for the development of its Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC), ...

US$1.2B for East Africa

News1 Dec 2014

The World Bank has announced it will provide US$1.2B to support infrastructure development and improve the competitiveness of the East Afric...

African rail steaming ahead

News1 Jun 2014

Rail has a bright future in Africa as both public bodies and private companies see the mode as encouraging economic development....

Rail PPPs to drive intermodal and trade in Pakistan

News15 Oct 2013

The Pakistan Government’s plans to use public private partnerships (PPPs) to raise investment and increase efficiency levels in the countr...

Dar es Salaam ‘must improve’

News1 May 2013

The latest Tanzania Economic Update published by the World Bank has called for productivity and efficiency improvements at the port of Dar e...

"Jamaica logistics hub" gets World Bank support

News13 Feb 2013

The World Bank Group has pledged to help find funding for a project aimed at making Jamaica the logistics hub for the Caribbean, Latin Ameri...

Bissau on the brink

News15 Jun 2011

The World Bank (IBRD) has warned that the West African port of Bissau is on the verge of becoming unusable because of silting. Rivers carry ...

IFC funds Santos terminal

News1 Mar 2011

International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, is providing financing for the new container terminal being developed...

Karachi secures WB loan

News1 Sep 2010

The World Bank will provide a loan of US$115.8M to rebuild four damaged berths on East Wharf at the Port of Karachi, adding 400m of quay wal...

Rijeka expansion under way

News1 May 2010

The Croatian City of Rijeka is investing €26M in expanding the Brajdica container terminal at the Port of Rijeka....

IFC to support Ho Chi Minh City facility…

News1 Nov 2009

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced that its Infrastructure Crisis Facility (ICF) has committed a financing package to help...

Transnet denies CPPI findings, adds tugs

Mozambique cabotage deal with French firm

Boost for Indian rail

Concession extension for Dar

Boost for Dar es Salaam

WB funds East India corridor

US$1.2B for East Africa

African rail steaming ahead

Rail PPPs to drive intermodal and trade in Pakistan

Dar es Salaam ‘must improve’

"Jamaica logistics hub" gets World Bank support

Bissau on the brink

IFC funds Santos terminal

Karachi secures WB loan

Rijeka expansion under way

IFC to support Ho Chi Minh City facility…

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Britain shifts radically to a tax and spend economy

Legal action by APM Terminals will not derail MSC lease, Port of Aarhus says

HHLA raises forecast for FY 2024

Wallenius Wilhelmsen says market softening short lived

Higher rates drive Maersk’s Q3 profitability

Transnet denies CPPI findings, adds tugs

Mozambique cabotage deal with French firm

Boost for Indian rail

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Britain shifts radically to a tax and spend economy

Legal action by APM Terminals will not derail MSC lease, Port of Aarhus says

HHLA raises forecast for FY 2024

Wallenius Wilhelmsen says market softening short lived

Higher rates drive Maersk’s Q3 profitability

Winners of US$ 2.9b Clean Ports Program announced

Port of Montreal longshore workers target Termont in latest strike round

APM Terminals Maasvlakte II orders up to 71 Lift AGVs from Konecranes

Montreal port labour dispute continues with new strike

Higher order intake in port solutions boosts Konecranes’ Q3 profit