Post Script
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Legacy or lunacy?
They say it will represent an important part of the legacy of Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki but how realistic is it to think that Kenya’s new port of Lamu will follow an effective development programme? 05 Apr 2012 - Port Strategy
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Lethal cocktail
Congestion is back in the East African ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam and to informed observers this comes as no surprise. 14 Mar 2012 - Port Strategy
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Bad times cometh
Ask any container shipping line about its New Year’s resolution and it has to be finding the path to stem financial losses. 08 Feb 2012 - Port Strategy
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Hostile climate
Last month, the Port of Felixstowe secured a judicial review of ABP Southampton’s plans to extend the berth line of the Southampton Container Terminal by 500 metres. 21 Dec 2011 - Port Strategy
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Deal certainty
There have been a few instances over the past year where the transition from Preferred Bidder to being award a terminal concession has been unusually swift. 16 Nov 2011 - Port Strategy
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Cyber-style UK domination
Felicity Landon reports on a bit of a Doctor Who moment on the quayside at Felixstowe. 08 Nov 2011 - Port Strategy
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Benefits born out of adversity
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 brought fundamental change to the ports sector. And while this change was born out of adversity much of it is change that can now be regarded as positive. 21 Sep 2011 - Port Strategy
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The Berbera option
Ethiopia, which has had more than one spat with Djibouti over the access it gets to its port facilities, the service levels available there and the price it pays for these, is soon to have a new port gateway made available to it. 14 Sep 2011 - Port Strategy
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An extraordinary affair
The early expulsion of Getma International, a subsidiary of the NCT Necotrans group, from its 25-year concession for the Conakry container terminal in Guinea has all the hallmarks of a most extraordinary affair. 30 Aug 2011 - Port Strategy
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An Indian first
International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has entered the burgeoning Indian container market in an innovative way. 08 Jun 2011 - Port Strategy
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A new dawn
India is a container market that all major international terminal operators want a piece of due to its major growth potential. 25 May 2011 - Port Strategy
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Time to shine
You could say here we go again and you would be right. 20 Apr 2011 - Port Strategy
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A balancing act
The question of port capacity and specifically the issue of introducing it at the right time was raised briefly in the last issue of PS but in the light of recent events it is worthy of further discussion. 16 Mar 2011 - Port Strategy
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The China effect
In January 2011, it was announced that China will lend Cameroon 243.5bn CFA francs ($48.7m), the majority of which will be spent on financing new deep-sea port facilities at the port at Kribi in the south of the central African nation. 10 Feb 2011 - Port Strategy
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All aboard
Man eating lions, murder, political controversy, highs and lows - the so-called “Lunatic Line” has seen it all. Where is it? It is the railway built in the era of British East Africa that runs from Mombasa to Kisumu on the shores of Lake Victoria and on to Kampala in Uganda. 05 Jan 2011 - Port Strategy
