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| | MUMBAI: The 21st Meeting of Maritime State Development Council (MSDC) concluded on Tuesday in Mumbai with landmark outcomes for India’s maritime sector. This was the first meeting of the MSDC after its recognition as a statutory consultative body under the Indian Ports Act, 2025, notified on 15th May 2026. |
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| | NEW DELHI: The PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (PMGS NMP), launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in October 2021, is completing five years, marking significant progress in integrated infrastructure planning and development in the country. |
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| | GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Bhupendra Patel held a meeting with Mr. Robert Goldstein, Chief Operating Officer of BlackRock, the world’s leading asset management company, in Gandhinagar to explore opportunities for expanding the company’s operations in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City). |
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| | MUMBAI: Swan Defence and Heavy Industries Limited (SDHI), India’s leading shipbuilding and heavy engineering company, on Tuesday announced its unaudited financial results for the half year ended September 30, 2026. |
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| | MANGALURU: The New Mangalore Port Authority (NMPA) has crossed a significant operational milestone by handling more than 26 million tonnes of cargo in the current financial year as of October 12, 2026, registering an impressive 7.68% growth over the approximately 24.23 million tonnes handled during the corresponding period of the previous financial year. |
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| | KOLKATA: Work on the road and bridge connecting the proposed Balagarh Mini Port in Hooghly began with a foundation ceremony on Monday, as authorities moved ahead with a ₹539-crore project intended to create an alternative cargo facility and reduce pressure on Kolkata’s Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port. |
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| | MUMBAI: Mumbai Port Authority (MbPA) has achieved another operational milestone with the successful execution of a specialised Roll-Off operation for heavy-lift coastal cargo, reinforcing its position as a preferred maritime hub for handling complex and oversized consignments. |
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| | NEW DELHI: Union Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday invited the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) to consider opening an office in India, citing the country’s growing importance in global steel demand and its expanding production capacity. |
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| | Around 250 representatives welcome recommendations of the 57th GST Council meeting aimed at facilitating ease of doing business BENGALURU: Shri Vivek Chaturvedi, Chairman, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), and Shri Sanjay Mangal, Member (GST), CBIC, interacted with trade associations and taxpayers in Bengaluru on October 13 to discuss the path-breaking reforms undertaken at the 57th meeting of the GST Council. |
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| | CHENNAI : The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) organised an interactive outreach programme with trade associations and taxpayers in Chennai on October 12, 2026, to discuss the path-breaking reforms introduced at the 57th meeting of the GST Council and their implications for businesses, industry and taxpayers. |
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| | NEW DELHI: Indian Railways has exported the first batch of LHB passenger coaches to Bangladesh under a new deal. RITES Ltd announced on Tuesday that it had sent the first batch of 18 broad-gauge passenger coaches to Bangladesh Railway under an agreement to supply a total of 200 coaches. |
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| | NEW DELHI: Freight rates for Russian oil exports from its western ports to India climbed to fresh record highs in early October amid heightened risks in the Black Sea and a continuing rally in the global tanker market, trading and shipping sources said. |
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| | BUSAN: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday welcomed home the first South Korean container ship to sail to Europe and back via the Arctic, as Seoul pushes to launch regular services on the route by 2030 despite diplomatic and commercial hurdles. |
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| | DHAKA: Bangladesh has signed a USD 335.78 million concessional loan agreement with China to expand and modernise its southwestern Mongla Port, located about 80 km west of the Indian border, according to a media report on Monday. |
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| | SOFIA (BULGARIA): Drones struck two ships off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast overnight, sinking one, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said Tuesday, adding that while there is no clear evidence, “logic” suggests the attacks benefit Russia. |
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| | DUBAI: Rory McIlroy’s season takes him around the world, but his training and recovery environment doesn’t have to change with it. In a new multi-year global partnership announced today, DP World will take McIlroy’s personalised fitness and recovery environment from tournament to tournament, using its smart end-to-end global logistics network to give him and his team greater consistency wherever he competes. |
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| | MALMO : The World Maritime University (WMU) and the International Maritime University of Panama (UMIP) are strengthening their cooperation in maritime education, research and capacity development through the renewal of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed earlier this year. |
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| | BRUSSELS: On 31 October, I will conclude my service as Deputy Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO). As that moment approaches, I would like to share with you a few words of gratitude, reflection and farewell. Serving the WCO and, above all, serving its Members over the past nine years has been one of the greatest privileges of my professional life. |
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| | The project will explore how hybrid-electric propulsion and GTT NEXT1®cargo containment system technology could support potential improvements in LNG transport efficiency. LONDON: Lloyd’s Register (LR), Shell and GTT have launched a Joint Development Project (JDP) to develop a conceptual 200,000m³ LNG carrier combining hybrid-electric propulsion with GTT NEXT1® cargo containment technology. |
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