Insight and Opinion – Page 40
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NewsSurviving 2010 not a panacea for 2011
What a wonderful year 2010 was: the container shipping industry has survived and even those on the edge of oblivion managed to get pulled back.
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NewsAll aboard
Man eating lions, murder, political controversy, highs and lows - the so-called “Lunatic Line” has seen it all. Where is it? It is the railway built in the era of British East Africa that runs from Mombasa to Kisumu on the shores of Lake Victoria and on to Kampala in ...
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NewsNo Christmas stocking for box ports
The liner industry has entered the slow season. Normally the peak season comes around late August through early October, but this year it came early in the July-August period.
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NewsBlack clouds on the funding horizon
With the Holidays approaching, air travel delays (rather than port issues) are occupying most transport watchers.
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NewsBest job in the world
In October an advertisement was placed in the French national press that said, “best job in the world” – become a crane operator at the port of Marseilles for €4000 a month, work 18 hours a week, enjoy eight weeks holiday a year and savour a job for life".
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NewsTiming issues
Dalian, north China''s largest operator, is the latest port to test the murky capital financing markets with a listing on the Shanghai stock exchange.
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Polish conversion
The fact that Poland’s newest container terminal DCT Gdansk took a long time to find the financing required for its set-up was no accident.
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NewsThe case for independence
It’s an old story but it is worth one reiterating that if a country has a single container terminal then it is a no brainer when it comes to deciding on the category of operator that should be awarded a concession under a privatisation initiative: independent container terminal operator every ...
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Fancy a Gamble?
Hedging, OTC trading and Derivatives have arrived in the container market. Ben Hackett
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NewsStarter's orders
Is it time to reinvigorate those stalled port expansion plans, or should operators wait for more certain economic statistics?
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NewsNot in my backyard
In these days of hyper-connected supply chains, we sometimes forget about the human factor, good old fashioned labour on the docks, in the warehouses, and around the port.
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NewsComing together for the greater good
Even before the 2008 elections, President Obama and his team were talking about Infrastructure.
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NewsRinging the changes
What are the consequences of the world recession for the international container terminal operating sector? We''ve put together a rundown of a few that are manifest and some that are just emerging.
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NewsBrave new world
Surely dockworkers around the world must be getting the message that pressure tactics have had their day... or are they still able to turn a blind eye to the big picture of economic uncertainty and lower priced alternatives?
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NewsThe littered road to recovery
The spectre of mass insolvency and bankruptcy appears to be behind us as the maritime industry roars to the end of 2010 with excellent financial results for the first half of the year.
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NewsChanging the guards
The order of things is changing in Mediterranean container transhipment operations.
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NewsExpect the unexpected
Rumour has it Maersk is in the market for a new generation of containership – a 16,000 teu vessel design – that will see a 2,000 teu increase in top of the range container vessel capacity.
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NewsHigh society
The new UK government’s championing of “Big Society” has inspired at least one national port community to think local.
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NewsNavigating through the logistics maze
In the logistics business, you can’t always believe the plans and projects that are announced through press releases and conferences, which are, in turn, dutifully reported in the trade press and through news sites.
