Insight and Opinion – Page 17
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Ports and lines are in need of a 'positive story'
COMMENT: The societal impact of cruise vessels is increasingly under scrutiny, focused on the effects of cruise passengers on cruise cities and environmental effects of cruise ships, writes Peter de Langen.
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NewsEcosystems and wedding venues
COMMENT: Ports are part of “ecosystems”, a new way of saying “big picture”- and it''s painful and frustrating when planners completely miss this important point, writes Barry Parker.
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Take the highway to profitability
COMMENT: There is a new container sector study about to hit the streets, Container Terminals: Paths to Profitability, writes Mike Mundy.
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NewsThe good, the bad and the ugly
COMMENT: The global economy is in a flux, not knowing what indicators to believe and trying to gauge the coming of a recession, writes Ben Hackett.
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NewsWelcoming winds of change
COMMENT: With the 2020 election season heating up in the US, political pronouncements about ''infrastructure'', are becoming more frequent, writes Barry Parker.
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NewsHeading for the rocks
COMMENT: US President Donald Trump announced, in a tweet, that he would raise the 10% tariff on $200bn of Chinese imported goods to 25% and that an additional $325bn of imports would soon be hit with a 25% tariff as well. That about covers all imports from China, writes Ben ...
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NewsFrom fuel to food
COMMENT: Rotterdam’s recent announcement that it is developing a 60-hectare ‘Food Hub’ at the entrance to Maasvlakte is interesting, both because of the concept and of the history of the site, writes Peter de Langen.
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NewsSea of change or storm in a teacup?
COMMENT: Shipping companies and ports are currently in somewhat of a quandary; they face criticism that ships are too large or too small, that alliances are harmful to customers and service providers such as ports, that they sail too slow or too fast and that they arrive too late or ...
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NewsNot-so-fair wind blows for ports
COMMENT: When a senior shipping line executive totalled the number of operational days lost to weather-related shutdowns at Shanghai last year, I’ll admit I was genuinely shocked at the figure he gave, writes Carly Fields.
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NewsMeeting tomorrow’s labour demands
COMMENT: Providing a series of training sessions for the European Transport Workers’ Federation allowed me and fellow members of the knowledge-dissemination platform www.porteconomics.eu to develop and discuss ideas on the future of labour in ports, writes Peter de Langen.
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NewsGoing undercover for port insight
Port Strategy (PS) magazine is starting a new "undercover rePORTer" section in the magazine featuring cutting-edge, but crucially anonymous, opinion from the experts in our wide, top-level audience.
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NewsNY road congestion brings port benefits
COMMENT: Road congestion, and its deleterious environmental impacts, could be driving change in supply chains around New York, writes Barry Parker.
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Circular space opportunities
COMMENT: There is a clear transition towards a circular economy, where materials and components are reused or recycled at the end of their lifecycle, and this transition has important consequences for supply chains, ranging from the way products are designed to the business models of companies, writes Peter de Langen.
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NewsPosorja project under fire
COMMENT: Following a Complaint filed by Dr Carlos Figueroa, a well-known political activist and medical doctor in Ecuador, the country’s Attorney General has initiated an investigation into the award of the 50-year concession for the Port of Posorja to DP World, the international terminal operator.
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NewsPorts countdown to IMO 2020
COMMENT: As this is being written, there are roughly 270 days until IMO 2020 — the day that tighter restrictions on sulphur content in marine fuels come into effect, writes Barry Parker
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Man the life rafts
COMMENT: £3.14m: it’s a deliciously-grand figure for a promised pot of cash to support communities of major ports in the UK that will be impacted the most by Britain’s departure from the EU. But it may as well have come with some fairy dust and a magic wand, writes Carly ...
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Sustained threats to Eurozone growth
COMMENT: Only an optimist will fail to recognise weak growth figures as a skin-of-the-teeth avoidance of recession in parts of Europe, writes Ben Hackett.
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NewsBe wary of unjustified optimism
COMMENT: Ports, terminal operators and especially ship owners tend to look for any sign of optimism and then joyously go ahead and invest without paying too much attention to the downsides facing the maritime industry. This is especially true when economic indicators suggest that a recession is around the corner, ...
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NewsBold move or shortsighted?
COMMENT: At the end of 2018, the Danish municipality of Kolding, the owner of Port of Kolding and the landlord port development company, decided to shut down the commercial port with a transition period of 25 years. That deserves a WOW, writes Peter de Langen.
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Zagreb built on misconceptions?
COMMENT: The new Zagreb Container Terminal, under development in Rijeka in Croatia, is currently experiencing a dispute over the award of construction works relating to allied rail facilities, including the new intermodal yard, writes Mike Mundy.
