DP World has completed the acquisition of Savan Logistics, operator of the Savannakhet dry port in the Savannakhet Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Laos. Savan Logistics has been operating the dry port since 2016. Situated on the west end of the 1,450-kilometre-long East-West Economic Corridor...
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Terminal operator DP World has completed the acquisition of Savan Logistics which operates the Savannakhet dry port in Laos, in the country’s first special economic zone. Situated on the west end of the 1,450km-long East-West Economic Corridor – linking Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, and...
Ahead of this week’s meeting of its legal committee, the secretariat at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has warned about two shipping registries it deems are fraudulent. Flags being administered allegedly on behalf of Guyana and Eswatini have come in for criticism. Despite the...
https://splash247.com/imo-highlights-two-fraudulent-shipping-registries/
Barring new evasive techniques by Kremlin technocrats, the rapid rise in Russia’s shadow tanker fleet since the Ukraine war may be reversing as pressure is brought to bear on India and other countries that have discreetly helped Russia beat oil and gas shipping sanctions. The agency waging its own...
For all the attention given to the Quad, the grouping itself has devoted limited time to the Indian Ocean – the “Indo” part of the Indo-Pacific region. As the two c ..
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Geography influences the strategic choices of all countries, but Vietnam is an interesting case of a “swing” state in comparative grand-strategy terms. The co ..
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Even after Asia’s economies climb out of the Covid-19 recession, China’s strategy of frenetically building dams and reservoirs on transnational rivers will confront ..
The Mekong, Southeast Asia’s most important river, has for millennia supported the rise and fall of empires and is responsible for the livelihood of over 65 million ..
The latest reports from the Lower Mekong Basin are cause for growing concern that another period of drought will succeed that of 2019, affecting Laos, Thailand, Cambodia ..
Laos and Thailand have agreed to start Phase II of the construction of the Laos-Thailand railway, which will link the existing suburban station to central Vientiane, local daily Vientiane Times reported on Tuesday, July 2.
The Department of Railways under the Lao Ministry of Public Works and Transport signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the project with Thailand’s Sermsanguan Construction Co., Ltd on last Friday in Vientiane. The 7.5 km expansion is expected to be completed at the end...
https://container-news.com/laos-thailand-expand-railway-into-lao-capital/