Insight and Opinion – Page 36
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NewsFalling well short of disaster
The height of the summer vacations are taking their toll across European production and consumption as factories shut down and workers headed for the beaches or mountains.
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Moving target
The tales of two recent labour struggles underline continuing fraught relations between port operators and workers in all parts of the world.
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The positives of private investment
Port authorities and governmental bodies have a great deal to gain when the deep pockets of big corporate entities are opened up.
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NewsThe jury's still out on Poland
At the end of March, Hapag Lloyd announced that the G6 Asia-Europe Loop 3 service would not call at the port of Gdansk, Poland.
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NewsThe transhipment race
Have you noticed the debate in the on-line Global Ports Forum about who will become the main container terminals in East and West Africa? We have, and have taken it upon ourselves to score some of the suggestions.
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NewsA relevant four letter word
In the world of port logistics, one consistent “four letter word” is D-R-A-Y, which refers to trucking of containers between a yard facility and a link to railways where boxes can move hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles around the country.
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NewsTime to batten down the hatches
The good news is that Greece is not dropping out of the Eurozone immediately as the conservatives have managed to create a government, the first in over 200 days.
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NewsShifting the centre of gravity
It can be said that the centre of gravity for shipping has been in Europe for at least the last two centuries. All the great fleets came out of Europe to conquer the world. This extended to the commercial world as well with the liner and bulk carrier fleets primarily ...
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NewsFact or fiction
Is Mediterranean Shipping Company offering for sale part of its global portfolio of container terminals or is it planning to spin off its terminal division in an initial public offering in Singapore?
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NewsThe black cloud over mature Europe
With Europe plainly in the doldrums there is a commensurate degree of lack of interest in new port projects. Certainly in the mature markets of Europe there is a widespread recognition that there are diminished prospects for achieving a sensible return on investment at least over the first seven to ...
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NewsChange of tack
APM Terminals has boldly put its money where its mouth is in its commitment to North America and put in an unsolicited bid to take over operations at Virginia Port Authority’s terminals.
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NewsThe regulator
It is now just over five years since South Africa’s Regulator – one of the world’s few independent port regulators – first convened.
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NewsConsider the wider transport system
Automation is a big thing in the ports business, sometimes crucial to growth, and sometimes less so. At box terminals in New York, where the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post has put labour practices under a microscope, it is vital.
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NewsBridges to mend and to build
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey appears to have hit a difficult patch in its trading life.
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NewsHow long is a piece of string?
One of the challenges of ports and carriers is how to define their capacity. For container ships we have been introduced to the terms ''nominal'' and ''effective'' capacity as well as ''weighting out'', and on the landside we have all sorts of measures.
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NewsShaking up the status quo down-under
Melbourne finally has its sights set on the prize with Port minister Denis Napthine giving the port''s long-awaited third container terminal the official go-ahead.
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NewsSecurity funding needs local support
Port security is full of challenges. The Port of Everett is set to install lighting, courtesy of a $1.3m free ride, fully funded by US port security grants covered within ARRA - a Federal infrastructure funding initiative.
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NewsLegacy or lunacy?
They say it will represent an important part of the legacy of Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki but how realistic is it to think that Kenya’s new port of Lamu will follow an effective development programme?
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NewsGo fish and keep good staff on the hook
We are bombarded on a daily basis with spiralling unemployment figures. So dire is the job market in many countries that you would be forgiven for thinking that employees would put up with anything just to keep what they have.
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NewsMemory loss the bane of the industry
If someone suffers from memory loss or senility, then the shipping industry is where to be. The industry bounces from crisis to euphoria and then appears to forget how it got there, but as the events will be repeated every two to four years we do not need much of ...
