Italy’s interior minister says he seeks to stop the business of trafficking and mafia.

The UN’s aid chief warns that Saudi Arabia blocked on Yemen is putting millions of people in danger of a mass famine.

A senior Iranian official says Iran sets no limitations for the return of shipping and liner companies to the country’s ports.

Singapore's Kim Heng Holdings signs an agreement worth $450 million to finance offshore facilities and other maritime ventures in Iran.

A fleet of Chinese warships visit European ports in show of goodwill and naval interest in the region.

DP World, one of the biggest international port operators, is weighing investment in Iranian ports on the Caspian Sea and the country's south to tap their potentials for linking the Silk Road from China to Europe.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and the country’s leading ports operator, the Tidewater Middle East Maritime Company, have been removed from the US list of companies designated for sanctions and assets freeze.

DP World, one of the largest port operators in the world, is weighing investments of up to $1 billion in Iran, the IRNA news agency quoted officials as saying.