Insight and Opinion – Page 37
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NewsLethal cocktail
Congestion is back in the East African ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam and to informed observers this comes as no surprise.
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NewsRed-Med railway pipe dream
The Israeli government has approved the construction of a railway line from the Port of Eilat to the national railway grid, linking it to the Mediterranean ports of Ashdod and Haifa.
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NewsRAMPing up American port potential
An important piece of legislation, the Realize America’s Maritime Promise proposal that could free up money for harbor maintenance, is kicking around Washington, DC.
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NewsWelcome the investment outsiders
Is the entrance of pension funds, infrastructure funds, private equity funds and other non-core investors into the international port investment arena a good thing? Of course it is.
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NewsNo easy win for Tauranga
The labour situation in New Zealand has gone from bad to worse: discontented port workers were about to enter their fourth month of strikes at Ports of Auckland as this issue went to press.
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NewsA oily mess by anyone's standards
The latest monthly report from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries forecasts 2012 demand as 88.9m barrels per day (bpd), up slightly on a previous estimate of 88.87m bpd.
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NewsStreamlining TWIC and the TSA
One recent news item in the “streamlining of government” category caught my attention: the Obama administration wants to consolidate a handful of business-facing agencies into the Department of Commerce.
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NewsBad times cometh
Ask any container shipping line about its New Year’s resolution and it has to be finding the path to stem financial losses.
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NewsA bad dose of post-holiday blues
Never let it be said that economists are an optimistic bunch; we have a tendency to look for the downside in statistics, looking for reasons to scale things back to suggest that there is worse to come.
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NewsAt your inconvenience
The International Transport Workers’ Federation’s threat to unceremoniously brand the Ports of Auckland as its first Port of Convenience sets a worrying precedent.
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NewsWestern malaise only mildly infectious
The West consumes, the East produces, the population split is 1 billion vs 6 billion, and yet it seems strange that when the former catches a cold we expect the latter to sicken as well. The reality is quite different.
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NewsA gassy on-dock debate
Maritime issues, by their nature, always cross boundaries - geographical, economic, or other.
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NewsHostile climate
Last month, the Port of Felixstowe secured a judicial review of ABP Southampton’s plans to extend the berth line of the Southampton Container Terminal by 500 metres.
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NewsEuropean capacity question resurfaces
In sharp contrast to the fears just a few years back that north European ports were heading for a capacity crunch, today’s concern is that there will be too much capacity flooding onto the market too soon.
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NewsLow blows for US ports
Falling volumes, bun fights for dredging works, misguided protestors disrupting operations – US ports are certainly having a tough time of it.
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NewsThe winner will now take the stage...
Is the burgeoning prominence of TV shows such as the X Factor symptomatic of the fact that nowadays there is growing scope for industry award events?
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NewsDeal certainty
There have been a few instances over the past year where the transition from Preferred Bidder to being award a terminal concession has been unusually swift.
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NewsThe highway to funding
Even without explicit ties to port funding, highway projects throw off enormous benefits to ports.
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NewsCyber-style UK domination
Felicity Landon reports on a bit of a Doctor Who moment on the quayside at Felixstowe.
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NewsFinancial roulette: the new game in town
It seems to me, as an interested observer, that the western hemisphere is in a gambling mood. There is a lot of hedging and slight of hand going on in the supposed rescue of the European banking system and Greece.
