Indian Ports and Terminals
Most cargo ships that sail between East Asia and America, Europe and Africa pass through Indian territorial waters. On West coast, Mumbai Port and on East Coast, Kolkata Port, both are having too much heavily traffic. Hence other options to be explored, Let us look how Mangalore Port at West Cost and Paradip Port at East cost can contribute their best.
- Dheeraj Gupta

Developments in UAE's Port Infrastructure
The UAE was fast to recover from the adversities of the economic slowdown which affected the world; in the shipping sector the same is visibly evident from the latest developments in port infrastructure and the new announcements regarding growth within existing ports.
- Captain Anshuman Singh

Facilitating the SMEs Growth
India has a long coastline, forming one of the biggest peninsulas in the world. After independence, seaborne trade has increased tremendously. Since world economies are increasingly dependent on efficient maritime transport and port sectors, maritime transport has been growing at a more rapid pace than trade flows.
- Jaimin Vasa

Overload Protection: A System Solution for Harbour Logistics
Increasing tempo and growing transhipment volumes in present-day logistics processes call for the maximum safety and availability of handling equipment. This is especially the case for harbour logistics.

Striking Breakthrough Recorded in Senegal's Logistics Operations
The Port of Dakar, like most seaports around the world, offered not long ago the scenery of jammed containers piled up on the docks and released one after another after a cumbersome procedure of collecting the requisite passes and release orders.
- Papa Abdou DIOP

Freight Watch - February 2013
Daily freight rates of Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) for route TD3, the industry’s benchmark route, delivering crude oil from Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabian oil to Chiba in Japan, blipped up for a session on increased Chinese demand and later remained low for want of fixtures.
- Nazir Ahmed Moulvi, Niteen M Jain

Maritime Dispute on State Jurisdiction
There is dispute on sea border between the major port and minor port within India. Now this 'Indian' dispute is going on between Kolkata and Dhamara private port of Odisha. This article is review of the matter in dispute, taken by one of the maritime experts Sham Choughule.
- Prof Sham Choughule

R C Singh: A Visionary in Maritime Education and Shipping
Talking of R C Singh is something like showing a Candle to the Sun. It is difficult to sum up the undaunted spirit, unquenched thirst and rock solid determination of a man with 80 per cent disability to achieve insurmountable success in the field, chosen by a few, the field of Marine Education.

New "Drive-in" Technologies Reduce Costs and CO₂
Konecranes presents the world’s first hybrid reach stacker - the SMV 4531 TB5 HLT for container handling, with a lifting capacity of 45 tonnes. It features a hybrid diesel/electric driveline, electrified hydraulic lifting system and a super capacitor based energy storage.
- Claus Burger

Modern Coal Technologies
Even as many countries are planning exit strategies for coal fired power generation to counter challenges faced due to Green House Gas Emission, King Coal will remain one of the most important sources of energy for the foreseeable future.
- Vijay Puri

Recent Developments in Dry Docks Design
The design of the dry dock and its related infrastructure has developed significantly over the last 30 years. It is driven principally by the need to build and maintain increasingly larger sizes of vessels, a greater focus on preserving environmental standards during dry docking activities and a desire to progressively improve the efficiency in undertaking these activities.
- Gary Courtnadge

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