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…

Work started this week on a Japanese-financed container terminal at Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Autonomous Port in a bid to transform the country’s small main seaport into a Southeast Asian hub by…

Dublin Port Company today opened final public consultation on its port expansion plan, which aims to prepare for the port’s “ultimate and final” capacity by 2040. Planned work on the…

Georgia’s state news agency Agenda has announced that construction will begin on the republic’s Anaklia deep sea port on the Black Sea coast over the course of this year. The…

The government of Costa Rica has announced plans to build a cruise terminal and marina in Limón on its Caribbean coast, the Tico Times reports.  The 27ha Hernán Garrón Salazar…

North Sea Port and Luxembourg-based steelmaker ArcelorMittal will develop a 150ha industrial estate in northeast Belgium. The “North-C Circular” estate will be built alongside the Ghent–Terneuzen canal, next to ArcelorMittal’s…

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari yesterday cut the ribbon to open Lekki Deep Sea Port, the first phase of which was completed in November at a cost of around $1.5bn. As…

Aecom will conduct a feasibility and design study for a second container terminal at Canada’s third-biggest port in Prince Rupert, northern British Columbia. The terminal would double the port’s annual…

Georgia, the country, is planning to revive a multi-billion-dollar deep-sea port project at Anaklia on the Black Sea three years after it dropped the scheme over problems with finance, website…

Dubai-based port operator DP World has agreed a deal with the Somali state of Puntland to expand and upgrade the port of Bosaso. The 12-month project will install a 150m…

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has been hired to build Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi, which is being developed by CMA Terminals (70%) and AD Ports Group (30%). CHEC will…

The relatively quiet Vietnamese province of Binh Dinh will experience heavy industry now that its government has approved a $2.2bn steel plant, complete with its own dedicated port, the VNExpress…