It is authored by two well-known industry figures, Andrew Penfold former owner of Ocean Shipping Consultants and Remco Stenvert, a member of the senior management team of ECT Rotterdam, part of the Hutchison Group. <\/p>\n
For the sake of good form, I also have to declare an interest in being involved in an editing role in the study\u2019s publication.<\/p>\n
There are two main inter-related areas of the study \u2013 the analysis of the new norm of container trade development and the charting of largely empirical approaches to investing in and achieving, sustaining and growing container terminal profitability, covering both existing and new assets.<\/p>\n
As the introduction to the Study puts it: \u201cThe risks and uncertainties facing the container terminal sector are considered, with these varying from macro-economic risks and the
changing structure of box trade to the uncertainties stemming from development of the container shipping industry with its strained financial viability and its search for scale economies.”<\/p>\n
High risk <\/strong> The client base of old is not the client base of today in the liner sector \u2013 the sector has seen far reaching consolidation and the rise of the mega-alliances.<\/p>\n These trend lines, it is contended, pose significant challenges for terminal operators in terms of seeking to achieve and maintain acceptable margins.<\/p>\n The cocktail of these new macro and micro forces \u2013 including the requirement for an increased focus on productivity, automation and the environment \u2013 is effectively driving an era of change. <\/p>\n This, in turn, promulgates the need to for more effective, targeted marketing and the application of new generation strategies for optimum pricing and profitability, adjusted according to the category of terminal: common-user; liner-owned, terminal and liner operator joint venture, etc. The study articulates these and provides case study examples. <\/p>\n Complementing this focus, the pros and cons of different terminal ownership models are assessed and the benefits that can flow from a full understanding of a client\u2019s overall transportation cost chain. <\/p>\n Generally, all the main factors are identified and appraised that influence the basic choices a terminal has to make and consistently pursue to build a sustainable competitive market position.<\/p>\n The study effectively charts the fundamental changes underway in the container terminal sector and plots a path, under different scenarios, of how to \u2018stay ahead of the game\u2019 in a much more demanding business environment.<\/p>\n For further information: info@mplimited.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COMMENT: There is a new container sector study about to hit the streets, Container Terminals: Paths to Profitability, writes Mike Mundy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-strategist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“These external and internal factors,” the authors suggest, \u201cmake investing and developing in the container sector highly risky and underline the need for in-depth project evaluation.\u201d<\/p>\n