ICTSI is reporting a 7% increase in terminal throughput in the first nine months of 2015 handling 5.7m teu, boosted by its new operations in Iraq.

It has been a stellar couple of weeks in the VLCC market where earnings topped $100,000 a day on routes east.

The company transporting rocks from the UAE to build approach works at Iraq's newest port says that work on an eastern breakwater is now complete, putting Iraq in poll position to win the race to build the mega-port for the northern Gulf.

International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) is to open a three-berth greenfield terminal at Umm Qasr in Iraq in mid-2016, after successfully launching commercial operations at an existing berth there in November.

Two Dubai-based companies, Transworld Group and Nawah have announced a formal agreement to service Iraqi import demand by combining shipping, logistics, marine services and port capabilities.

Those tankers anchored off Galveston have been in the news again, this time in connection with imports of crude oil that may have originated in the Kurdish region of Iraq, sometimes known as Kurdistan. In an unfolding battle with both logistical...

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has denied media reports that it sold a shipment of crude oil to Israel earlier this month.

Iraqi shipping traffic has remained consistent despite a truck bombing at Iraq’s largest port of Umm Qasr on Saturday, an Iraqi official has said.

Baghdad: CMA CGM has announced its new multimodal inland port  in Baghdad will open June 2013.