Insight and Opinion – Page 31
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NewsInner city development threatens ports
COMMENT: It’s not enough that developers snap up waterfront land at any opportunity and throw up condominiums at a jaw-dropping speed to take advantage of the premium buyers will pay for a watery view, regardless of the impact on the port, writes Carly Fields.
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NewsMexico: lessons from organised crime
COMMENT: The Mexican Pacific Coast port of Lazaro Cardenas highlights the negative impact of organised crime.
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NewsVietnam needs to deliver on its promises
COMMENT: The coordinating hand of government is an essential ingredient in infrastructure investment to generate a win: win for the investor and the host country concerned.
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NewsMissed opportunity
Picture this if you will: you have no experience in the container handling business but assisted by the fact that you have a strategic partner, who does know the business, you win a small but interesting container terminal concession.
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NewsA need for global standards
Port of Antwerp has issued its 2013 Annual Report which contains an interesting ranking of the largest ports worldwide.
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NewsNew kid on the block
Australia is about to welcome a new global terminal operator into its mix. An ICTSI-led consortium was the surprise winner for the concession of the new third container terminal in the Port of Melbourne.
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NewsAre we there yet?
Irrelevant of what we are talking about in the maritime industry the answer is no. Excess capacity will continue to be the cross to bear for a number of years to come.
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NewsBecks kicks up a storm
David Beckham is jeopardising maritime sector growth in Miami by seeking to build a soccer stadium at the port of Miami. Or so an alliance of shipping interests and a billionaire car dealer believe.
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NewsCome out fighting
The commodities websites and energy blogs have been buzzing with the rumblings that Albany, about a hundred miles north of New York harbour on the Hudson River, is under consideration by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as a delivery point for futures contracts in ''light'' crude oil.
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NewsThe No 1 proponent of protectionism
Comparatively recently, details of an opportunity were circulated relating to the development of a container gateway in the Crimean port of Sevastopol.
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NewsTales of two ports
Two tales from UK ports make interesting reading this month. In the West, Bristol Port Company (BPC) offered £10m to the local council to buy the freehold to the docks at Avonmouth and Portbury. The company bought the leasehold in 1991 under a 150-year lease.
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NewsDar saga plays on
The saga of the construction of berths 13 and 14 at Dar es Saalam port – the berths intended to provide much needed new container capacity – continues.
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NewsChannelling the gas flow
A spate of recent conferences has brought New York’s shipping community to life, in spite of cold weather.
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NewsDemand versus counting beans
Lo and behold, the container shipping executives have discovered that they cannot control their own pricing. What an earth-shattering revelation; how much do they earn to come up with this news?
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Lessons from an early mover
The strike of truckers in Vancouver’s port is ‘striking’ as Vancouver is one of the ports most actively involved in improving trucking operations.
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Applying the economic paradox
We have come across the term ''paradox'', when the opposite of what one expects happens; can we apply it to economics? Of course we can.
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NewsDealing with the fallout
However you add it up the container shipping industry is experiencing turbulent times.
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NewsTime to get to grip with reforms
India’s 2013-14 GDP data will be released at the end of March and expectations are that it will be an even lower figure than the decade-low of 5% achieved at the end of March 2013.
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NewsCold snap, warm will in NY
In New York, the conversations have all about bad weather: cargoes of road salt not arriving, straddle carriers slipping around at Port Elizabeth, trucks sliding around the Brooklyn docks, and tankers punching through ice as they move up to Albany to load Bakken crude.
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Firm commitment
The highs and lows of port planning have been acutely felt on the US east coast this month.
