LA/LB and Tanjung Pelepas celebrate as 2024 port 'winners and losers' revealed
**EDITED AT 14:00 BST 02/04/25 TO INCLUDE QUOTE FROM ANTWERP-BRUGES** Last year’s port throughput “winners and ...
India’s largest private port operator today reported nine-month results that again underscore just how poorly the state-owned ports are servicing the country’s economy.
Adani Port and Special Economic Zone, at the north-western port of Mundra, has been one of the chief beneficiaries of the series of labour disputes, terminal breakdowns – and ensuing congestion – that have dogged India’s premier container gateway, Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNP), over the past few years.
Mundra handled 1.68m teu in the nine months to the end ...
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Michael Kusuplos
January 27, 2014 at 4:02 pmAgain, private enterprise has shown how they can provide a most successful service at a lower cost than that of government controlled and operated facilities.
India opened its doors to the global way of doing business over 20 years ago, when we they finally cast off the ways of the past?