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Source:  http://www.portwings.in/editorial/modi-is-duty-bound-to-reveal-outcome-of-his-foreign-tours/ Port Wings Editorial: May 27, 2015: Ever since taking office in May 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited Bhutan, Brazil, Nepal, Japan, United States, Myanmar, Australia, Fiji, Nepal, Seychelles, Mauritius, Singapore, France, Germany, Canada, China, Mongolia, and South Korea. And there are reports coming out from PMO that in another few days time, Modi is expected to fly on another tour. Modi’s foreign tours have drawn a lot of attention, praise and criticism from various quarters.  While the main opposition party Indian National Congress has termed the tours as self-promotion of “Brand Modi” than the country he representing as the elected representative , BJP has categorically countered the accusation and stated that PM Modi’s foreign tours are indeed aimed at building a momentum before the global community that India has reached its stature for a ...

Source: http://www.portwings.in/articlesinterviews/pending-projects-tns-lone-union-minister-pins-hope-on-jaya/ Chennai: Port Wings News Network: In a congratulatory message to Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who sworn in as the CM of Tamil Nadu for the record fifth time on May 23, Mr Pon. Radhakrishnan, Minister of State for Road Transport, Highways & Shipping, has said that her return as CM will foster fast-paced and better industrial growth in the of southern coastal state. Mr Radhakrishnan, who also attended the Jayalalithaa’s swearing-in ceremony as the representative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said that many pending port-related projects are likely to be speeded up under the new Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. PANNEERSELVAM & RADHAKRISHNAN MEETING: In an unexpected visit during November last year, Mr Radhakrishnan, who was the then Union Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, met the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Mr...

Source: http://www.portwings.in/articlesinterviews/thiruvottiyur-parking-yard-madras-hc-order-puts-chennai-port-in-a-fix/ Port Wings News Network: With the Madras High  Court directing the Tamil Nadu Government as well as the Chennai Port Trust (ChPT)  to return 13.93 acres land at Thiruvottiyur, where the latter had developed a parking yard for container trailers, the future of the facility aimed at decongesting the Ennore Expressway leading to the port, now hangs on balance. Delivering the order on a writ petition filed by Ms R.Revathy, descendant of the said property, Justice C.S.Karnan of Madras High Court directed the Tamil Nadu Government and Chennai Port management to reconvey the land situated at Thiruvottiyur in favour of the petitioner within a period of three months after receiving the original compensation amount with admissible interest thereon from the petitioner. In other words,  the order has put question marks over the future of Chennai Port’s a...

Source: http://www.crisisgroup.org/ The South China Sea is the cockpit of geopolitics in East Asia. Five countries – Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam – plus Taiwan have substantial and competing territorial and maritime claims in a body of water that is both an important source of hydrocarbons and fisheries and a vital trade corridor.   The recent history has been scarred by cycles of confrontation. Today, the clashes are becoming more heated, and the lulls between periods of tension are growing shorter. As the region continues to grow in influence and power, the handling of the competing claims will set the tone for relations within East Asia for years. The cost of even a momentary failure to manage tensions could pose a significant threat to one of the world’s great collaborative economic success stories. Despite China’s controversial development of some of the reefs it controls, the current relatively low temperature of the disagreement offers ...

Source: http://www.portwings.in/ports/conveyor-belt-tragedy-rekindles-cbis-date-with-chennai-port/ Chennai: Port Wings News Network: While the Chennai Port is preparing a roadmap for reviving the handling of coal in the next few months after the Supreme Court gave a direction, the recent accident, where a dilapidated structure – a conveyor belt system to move coal from vessels to dumping yard, has opened the old debate among the port employees. For many employees in the Chennai Port, though it was a non-fatal accident, the dilapidated conveyor belt system is seen as a standing testimony of how the corruption systematically moved the coal handling away from the port. CBI & COAL CONVEYOR BELT: After convinced with a tip-off from a port employee about a possible corruption in its procurement, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a case (RC0322011A0018)against the then Chairman of the Chennai Port Trust and other few officials involved in the decision making fo...