News Second Chinese port planned for Peru 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…
News Skanska wins three US contracts worth $447m 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…
News China Communications to invest extra $300m in Colombo Port City 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…
News 85-tonne-a-day hydrogen plant planned for Nantes 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…
News India’s Karnataka to get brand new port 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…
News India’s first transshipment port opens in Kerala 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…
News DP World starts building East Java container terminal 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…
News Esbjerg Port gets €940m to become green powerhouse 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…
News Work starts on €928m breakwater to transform Port of Genoa 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…
News Cambodia starts $1bn job to quadruple its main port’s capacity 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…
News Consultation opens on €400m Dublin Port expansion 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…
News Construction of Georgia’s Anaklia port to begin in 2023 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…
News Costa Rica to issue tenders for $850m port this year 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…
News Belgium’s North Sea Port to build 150ha estate for circular industries 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…
News President Buhari opens “game changing” Lekki Deep Sea Port 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…
News Aecom to study idea for second container terminal in Prince Rupert, BC 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…
News Ukraine war revives plan for Georgia’s deep Black Sea port 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…
News DP World to upgrade Somali port of Bosaso 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…