​ Pakistan International Container Terminal (PICT), in partnership with Standard Chartered Bank, has launched a virtual accounts system for more seamless and transparent client transactions. The digital solution–the first of its kind across Pakistan’s container terminal industry–allows clients to…

​ Subic Bay International Terminal Corp. (SBITC), which operates the New Container Terminal 1 and 2 at the Port of Subic Bay, Zambales, has handled one million TEUs in less than six years starting in 2014.   The one-millionth TEU was offloaded from the Evergreen boxship Isobel on 9 April.  Evergree…

The workplace will never be the same in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.  We need to adjust and implement additional health and safety measures as part of our transition to the new normal of workplace safety.  This manual contains the guidelines that ICTSI workplaces need to observe to…

  ICTSI Rio Brasil and other companies operating in the Port of Rio de Janeiro have joined hands to extend relief assistance to 102 vulnerable families in the Caju community near the port. Spearheaded by the Companhia Docas de Rio de Janeiro, the initiative provided families with basic relie…

ICTSI Rio Brasil welcomes the anticipated shift to 24/7 operation of the Cotunduba Canal, the primary waterway access to the Port of Rio de Janeiro. Currently, night-time maneuvers are only allowed for vessels with drafts up to 12.6 meters through the Barra Grande water.  Having night-time access o…

The Management Association of Pakistan (MAP) has recently conferred Pakistan International Container Terminal (PICT) with the Corporate Excellence Award–an honor that PICT has earned for the fifth consecutive year. PICT received the award in early March for its commercial diligence and responsible…

With the ongoing enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) having a profound impact on the marginalized in the Philippines, ICTSI has and continues to heed the call for unity, supporting initiatives to alleviate the plight of vulnerable sectors, including the urban poor, the elderly, and the indigen…

Contecon Guayaquil (CGSA) has signed an assistance and cooperation agreement with the Ecuadorian National Navy to provide health supplies to hospitals across Ecuador. CGSA has pledged to periodically provide, based on availability, health supplies for the Navy to distribute to hospitals, including…

Basra Gateway Terminal recently welcomed the 8,452-TEU Ever Libra–the largest container vessel to call BGT East. The call serves as another milestone following BGT’s handling of its two millionth TEU in September last year, highlighting the terminal’s expanded capacity and ability to handle larger…

Last 24 February, Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT) met with the main non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC) partners and feeder operators covering the increasingly important market between India and Iraq. BGT organized the meeting to help close the gap for the NVOCCs by establishing direct contact…