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Modi, Putin discuss north-south transport corridor at Sochi summit
22 May 2018
The International North-South Transport Corridor is a 7,200-km-long multi-modal network of ship, rail, and road route for moving freight among India, Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Central Asia and Europe
Iran invites Pakistan, China to join India in Chabahar port project
14 Mar 2018
In a move that is bound to raise hackles in New Delhi, Iran has invited China and Pakistan to participate in the development of the strategic Chabahar port, which is being built by India for the purpose of bypassing Pakistan
Dredging Corp staff keen to buy out govt stake
22 Feb 2018
Trump says China ‘caught red handed’ supplying oil to N Korea
30 Dec 2017
A US-drafted UN resolution seeks to ban nearly 90 per cent of refined petroleum exports to North Korea in response to Pyongyang's efforts to develop nuclear-tipped missiles capable of hitting the United States
Chabahar port opens an India-Iran-Afghanistan economic corridor
04 Dec 2017
Last month India shipped the first consignment of a planned 1300,000 tonne wheat supply to Afghanistan through the Chabahar port
India elected to IMO council for a 2-year term
02 Dec 2017
No takers for coastal shipping of automobiles
16 Nov 2017
Mumbai-Panaji cruise service to start early next month
08 Nov 2017
The vessels will stop at Vengurla, Malvan and Ratnagiri among other places to enable passengers, who arrive in large canoes, to embark and disembark
Essar completes construction of Ro-Ro terminals in Gujarat
23 Oct 2017
The Ro-Ro ferry service, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated on Sunday, will bring down travel time between Gujarat's Ghogha and Dahej ports from 7 hours to just over an hour
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