Haldia port is likely to resume operations on Friday, ending a tense, two-day stand-off between the senior management and its workers. Sources said two unions, representing the chargesheeted workers, ...

In this model, the hub is the Dhamra sea port in Orissa. Big ships which cannot come to Haldia because of low river depth will reach Dhamra. Cargo will then be transferred to smaller ships, or barges, ...

Kolkata: The Kolkata Port Trust is apprehensive of the future of the Haldia port. With neighbouring ports armed with better fecilties, authorities fear the Haldia dock complex might not see a very ...

The Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) proposes to cut a channel right through the Nayachar island as part of long-term measures to improve navigability at Haldia Dock Complex (HDC).

Royalty system may harm Haldia port Though Nitin Gadkari, union shipping, roads and highway minister, promised Rs 2,000 crore investment ...

Normalcy at Haldia port has been restored with mooring workers agreeing to resume work immediately. Some 60-odd mooring crew had struck work on Monday after Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) officials ...

West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has asked the Centre for its speedy approval for a deep-sea port near Haldia as Bangladesh is planning to set up one in Chittagong.

The Kolkata Port Trust is also trying to introduce trans-loading at the Haldia dock and has invited expressions of interest from various firms, said Mr. Ray Chowdhury.

The new Chairman of the Kolkata Port Trust, M. L. Meena, said that while dredging subsidy now being received from the Centre, would continue till the new facilities were ready, efforts were on to ...

A private firm handling cargo at the Haldia port in West Bengal has pulled out of the project, announcing on Wednesday that state was not providing it with a secure environment to work in. There ...

Ports coming up at the confluence of the Subarnarekha river and Bay of Bengal and a deep sea port near Tajpur in West Bengal will further jeopardise the embattled Kolkata Port Trust.

The Sonadia site, with suitable parameters to establish a deep sea port, is a rare opportunity to ensure a better living for the people of this land from its own resource.