Insight and Opinion – Page 32
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NewsShould ports spread their wings?
Contrary to seaports, most airports are run by commercially operating airport managing bodies, some government owned, some fully privately owned and many with mixed ownership models. This is the result of a transition process that has taken place in many countries over the last decades.
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NewsHolidays in Mogadishu
It is a big step from the images presented by the 1993 movie Black Hawk Down to the idea of Mogadishu as a holiday resort.
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NewsGetting port policies right
Getting the right policy framework for port development is a complicated challenge.
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NewsBlanket bans
Getting greens onside is one of life’s great battles for ports looking to expand. Some tackle environmentalists head on, preferring a fight to flight. Others bring them into every conversation to prove there’s nothing to hide.
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NewsEconomic recovery lacks traction
Four years after the official end of the Great Recession and we are still struggling to find sustained recovery. Have we become accustomed to high levels of unemployment, and low levels of consumer confidence combined with low levels of sales? Have the economic experts hit a brick wall with no ...
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NewsToo much, too soon for Rijeka
One of the cardinal sins in the introduction of new port capacity is to deliver it before it is required. All the more so, if government has previously encouraged foreign direct investment into the same sector and it is clear that this has delivered adequate capacity for the long term.
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NewsDisappointment of US report card
The US infrastructure is in the news again, although not in a good way. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has issued its report card and the States gets a ''D+'' overall - basically a failing grade with some sugarcoating on it.
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NewsPrepare for the worst
In the wake of the devastating effects of typhoon Haiyan on the Philippines, the debate has intensified as to the effects of global warming on tropical storms.
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NewsPatched into cyber risks
Since the rushed introduction of the International Ship and Port Facility Code back in 2004, ports have had a dogged focus on security of their facilities. Miles of perimeter fencing has been erected, tens of thousands of security plans have been put in place and countless port security officers have ...
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NewsIs the patient getting better?
Now that the US Government is back at work, the new German Government well installed and China setting off with new economic reforms, it seems that all and sundry are trying to work out if we are solidly back on the road to recovery or still stumbling along a rocky ...
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NewsCashing in on US distraction
Sandwiched in-between the big fiascos in Washington, DC - which culminated in a government shutdown - President Obama, visiting New Orleans, called for increased infrastructure spending.
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NewsMore questions than answers
The proposed P3 alliance between Maersk, MSC and CMA-CGM raises more questions than it answers.
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What's in a name?
In the ongoing evolution of port governance, many port authorities are being forced to re-think their role.
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NewsWorld trade troubles stack up
Like last year, the World Trade Organisation now expects trade volumes to grow only slightly faster than GDP in 2013: the slowing of trade volumes that was manifest in 2012 has therefore continued into 2013. Therein lays a primary cause of the current difficult circumstances of world shipping.
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NewsNo guarantees on post-expansion traffic
The sense of excitement on the US East Coast around the seemingly limitless benefits of the expansion of the Panama Canal is palpable. Ports from Miami to Boston are riding the post-expansion train, and dishing out a great deal of hyperbole as to why they will get the diverted West ...
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NewsUnfinished business
Seven years on from port privatisation in Nigeria port congestion remains a significant problem and is the focus of growing attention.
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NewsSprint to the finish
We are in the home stretch for the mayoral race in New York, with my candidate John Catsmitides shut out - he lost in the Republican primary to Joe Lhota.
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NewsTaking Oman's lead
The release of the annual World Economic Forum’s Gobal Competitiveness Report is always eagerly awaited and while it is generally of limited relevance to the port industry, it does contains one directly relevant indicator: ‘Quality of port infrastructure’.
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NewsBringing problems in bulk
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), coal consumption will decline in Europe and the US, but will continue to rise in India and China, nearly doubling in consumption primarily intended for electricity generation by 2035.
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NewsTanzania shake-up
A shake-up is underway at the Tanzania Ports Authority as part of broad-based efforts to improve port efficiency.
