The development of the offshore market in the Middle East and changes in world trades patterns could be of particular benefit to the GCC, according to local and international industry leaders.
DP World has posted stable 2.4% like-for-like growth in container volumes across its worldwide terminal portfolio, after handling 14.2m teu in Q3 of 2013.
Port operators, shippers and feeder lines are getting ready for an upgraded and modernised Panama Canal as “it is expected to affect world shipping very much as the opening of the original Canal did a century ago,” according to Caribbean Shipping...
With DP World’s London Gateway gearing up to accept its first MOL vessel on 7 November, it appears there is still no obvious end to disagreements with organised labour in sight.
Although an intuitive understanding of the human costs of piracy always exists, the case of the Pakistani ship’s master kidnapped in the Indian Ocean in 2010, en route from Dubai to Mombasa, struck a chord with attendees of Dubai Counterpiracy...
The UAE is switching its attention in the fight against Somali piracy to rehabilitating the troubled East African nation’s hinterland in the wake of international navies’ recent successes in quelling Indian Ocean brigandry.
Profit at DP World rose 6.3% to $295m for the first half of 2013, its global container volumes falling nearly 6% driven by weaker conditions in Asia – Pacific and the Indian sub-continent.
So, the long-anticipated and much discussed moving and shaking has started among Britain's major ports. DP World London Gateway, due to open in the fourth quarter this year, has signed up its first customer, the consortium that operates the...
