A subsidiary of China Railways is considering investing in the creation of a major port in the West African state of Liberia. The China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Bureau Group…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is lending the Union of the Comoros $135m so it can improve its ports to boost trade. Comoros is an archipelago of three islands in…

A consortium of development banks has agreed to back “Project Shiprite”, a floating drydock that will be built at the port of Takoradi in western Ghana. The $137m dock will…

The job of building a deep-water port in the Caucasus state of Georgia has gone to the project’s only bidder, China Communications and its China Harbour Investment subsidiary. Levan Davitashvili,…

A consortium of companies including mining giant Rio Tinto has broken ground on a 650km railway in the West African state of Guinea to ship iron ore. The “Trans-Guinean Railway”…

Hill International has won a three-year contract to provide on-call construction management for federally-funded projects for the Port of Oakland in California. Work could arise from maintaining the seaport, plus…

The Port Authority of Valencia in Spain has announced that four teams have entered bids to build a northern expansion for its container terminal. All the consortiums vying for the…

Ground broke last week on a $580m port project in the Vietnamese province of Quang Tri, English language daily Vietnam News reports. Going up on a 685ha greenfield site in…

A consortium led by Italy’s Webuild (40%) has explained its plan for protecting marine life affected by the construction of a breakwater at Genoa port. A team of marine biologists…

A subsidiary of Chinese firm Jinzhao has won a $405m contract to build a port in Peru, one of the world’s top copper producers, Reuters reports. Jinzhao Peru will build…

Skanska has won a data centre project in Virginia, a supplemental waterfront facility in the eastern US and a road in Los Angeles. In Virginia, Skanska has landed a $242m…

China Communications has promised to invest $300m in the second phase of its Port City Colombo project. Company chair Wang Tongzhou made the pledge to Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickramasinghe…

French green-hydrogen specialist Lhyfe has been chosen by the Port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire to build a green hydrogen factory in Montoir-de-Bretagne at the mouth of the Loire River. It’s expected…

Indian port builder JSW Infrastructure has signed an agreement with the government of Karnataka state in southwest India to build a $480m deepwater port. JSW will develop Keni Port as…

Work has finished on India’s first transshipment container port, the $925m Vizhinjam International Seaport in the southwestern state of Kerala. The deepwater port was built in the Keralan capital Thiruvananthapuram…

DP World and Indonesian conglomerate Maspion Group have begun building a new container terminal in Gresik, East Java. The joint venture DP World Maspion East Java will operate the terminal…

Pension fund PensionDanmark has agreed to invest €940m in the Danish port of Esbjerg to expand its renewable energy capacity, including €780m to build fabrication works for wind turbines over…

A Webuild-led consortium has started building a more-than 6km-long breakwater off the Port of Genoa to allow the port to accommodate the biggest ships. It will push the outer barrier…