Insight and Opinion – Page 33
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NewsThe print run on port demand
At various points this year you may have glimpsed a headline, or overhead a conversation in a bar about 3d printing that momentarily piqued your interest, but by the time you got home you’d forgotten all about following up to find out more.
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NewsP3: more ports, less terminals?
The P3 alliance between Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company and CMA CGM will have a significant impact on ports worldwide, but who will win and who will lose?
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NewsDramatic changes on horizon
The press in Europe, Asia and North America is full of reports that economic recovery has returned and that the recessionary path has been left behind.
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NewsBrains not brawn
The 21st century will progressively see the deployment of a port labour force that uses its head rather than its muscle power.
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NewsFunding without a strategy
The interactions of politics and port commerce make for some strange stories: in early September, the US Department of Transportation awarded more than $100m in grants to a dozen recipients in port related projects - with more than half for infrastructure specifically at the ports.
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NewsWelcoming the waterfront of tomorrow
A New York area Congressional representative, Nydia Velazquez, has introduced the ''Waterfront of tomorrow'' act, legislation that, if it moves forward, would have important impacts on the waterfront around New York, and other ports that are balancing their roles as transport hubs with the concerns of the local citizenry.
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An eye on rival trade pacts
The inter-Asia container trades are booming – notably in South East Asia and in the north.
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NewsThe risky port expansion mindset
This July, figures for the total throughput of the UK ports system were released revealing a 4% decline in volumes. This is itself is not unsurprisingly given the current state of the freight markets.
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NewsChange afoot
The ‘big four’ still dominate the annual container terminal operator rankings, but could they be living on borrowed time?
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NewsDurres debacle
Effectively loading the result of an open tender is never a good path to realising a positive outcome for a container terminal concession, especially when the concession is awarded to a company that is a non-port operating company.
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NewsSharp end of the financial stick
Decisions related to money transfers may have an impact on shipping: diaspora remittances are the biggest foreign currency earner for many of the poorest nations in the world as well as for some others, such as Egypt.
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NewsEnergy needs a port voice too
Living in the Northeastern US, it’s impossible not to be thinking about energy issues; in spite of decreases in overall net energy imports, this part of the country is still dependent on imported oil and gas.
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NewsICTSI stuck in the middle
Is it energy politics, gateway politics, is it following the lead of hardened business practice deployed in the Russian energy sector or simply the actions of a new port director?
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NewsVisual stimulation
On a bleary and dank June morning in Rotterdam, taking a coach trip to the game-changing Maasvlakte II development seemed to be a good use of time.
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NewsClock watching port-style
In the past few years, more attention has been paid to ''on time'' arrival and it is a phenomenon that is not going to go away. But it seems that ''on time'' is a subjective phrase, so whose definition to we use?
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A conference by any other name
The shipping industry is a strange thing: it struggles to compete with itself. This is true of both the liner and the bulk sectors where, generally, pricing is an open field for jousting and often leads to bloodshed when prices drop below sustainable levels as we have witnessed on a ...
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NewsAttention focused on water resources
From New York, where the Coast Guard has now signed off on the modifications to the Bayonne Bridge, maritime people turned their eyes south to Washington, DC, as the US Senate approved the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA).
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NewsOpen the door to dialogue
Not for the first time a landlocked country in Africa is attempting to have a say in a remote port operation which functions as a major gateway for its import and export trade.
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NewsA touch of spice down under
The Port of Melbourne Corp has published the names of the four parties short-listed for “the right to operate the third international container terminal at the Port of Melbourne".
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NewsDog with a port autonomy bone
Never let it be said that the European Commission gives up on a fight: liberalisation proposals for ports in the trading bloc have resurfaced once again, undaunted by the backlashes to the previous incarnations in 2003 and 2006.
