Union Minister Pratima Bhoumik on Tuesday received a consignment in Tripura's Sepahijala district as part of a trial run for cargo movement from Calcutta to northeast via Bangladesh's Mongla p...

The Kolkata Port, now rechristened as Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port (SMP), will undertake four trial runs before the implementation of an agreement on the use of neighbouring Bangladesh’s Chittago...

Six stone chips laden trucks on board a goods ship sank in Ganga on Thuirsday night between Sahibganj district of Jharkhand and Manihari area of Katihar district of Bihar. As of now three-four pe...

A vessel loaded with 165 containers partly capsized at Netaji Subhas Dock of the Kolkata port on Thursday, an official said. No casualty was reported in the incident, though a number of containers ha...

The Centre plans to offer incentives to shipping lines and take steps to remove container shortages in the budget as it looks to more than double exports to $1 trillion in five years. Besides, the go...

Officials of the Malda division of Eastern Railway have taken up the task to augment their income by increasing cargo movement in the division. As part of the plan, they held a meeting with a delegat...

A team of the Sunderbans district police rescued 13 persons, of whom 12 are Bangladeshi nationals, from a cargo ship carrying fly ash from Haldia to Bangladesh that capsized late on Wednesday evening....

The government on Saturday allowed imported containers to remain at Indian ports for up to nine months to help solve the container shortage issue faced by exporters, according to an official circular....

The mammoth cargo ship blocking one of the world’s most vital maritime arteries was wrenched from the shoreline and finally set free on Monday, raising hopes that traffic could soon resume in th...

With hopes rising that the partial refloating of the Ever Given means the Suez Canal will soon reopen for business, shipping analysts cautioned that it will take time — perhaps days — for ...