Insight and Opinion – Page 46
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NewsBulk Into Containers
The global shipping market is in somewhat of a flux, with a possible world recession, sharply fluctuating bulk shipping rates and liner rates trying to decide what to do.
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The contrast between achieving market reach in mature and emerging economies has perhaps never been greater. In northern Europe, for example, the battle is one of delivering enough capacity and removing the landside bottlenecks that can slow road and rail traffic especially at peak times.
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PS Opinion piece
This is the 50th issue of Port Strategy and as there isn''t room here to list an "anything-to-do-with-50" ranking, I thought I would list my likes and dislikes of the port business until space runs out.
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Opinion Piece- USA
The designation of "hands-on manager" is not always a compliment; it''s sometimes used derisively to describe someone who somehow advanced from the docks (or other "blue collar" work) up the rungs of the executive ladder.
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NewsInland Ports - The New Way
When we talk about North European ports today, we tend to focus on the Le Havre-Hamburg range of deepsea ports and associate those ports with congestion. True, false or misconception?
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International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) is a company that has a reputation for introducing modern container handling expertise into nations that have previously been bereft of this asset and the latest chapter regarding its efforts in this respect has been steadily unfolding in the Syrian port of Tartous.
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"Glimmer of Hope"
The shipping-related industry is suffering as it never has done before: ships are being laid up in record numbers, bulk companies are going under, ship orders are being cancelled or delayed, and profitability is but a dream.
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VIEWPOINT
It is interesting to hear that the major container terminal operators in the Port of Genoa, Italy - the PSA operated Voltri Terminal Europe and Southern European Container Hub Terminal (SECH) - are moving towards an exchange of shares in each others facilities. Clearly, this represents an interesting rationalisation of ...
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NewsPS Opinion piece to go in news from Mike
It is interesting to note that the privatisation of the Port of Izmir, Turkey has been temporarily suspended after a legal challenge by a union that it is contrary to the public interest. The thought springs to mind as to why government hadn''t got this aspect covered before the launch ...
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The time for the establishment of "independent port regulators" is, in our view, most definitely upon us. With the promise of objective rulings on port tariffs, handling charges and other key aspects of the price/service equation, port authorities that find it difficult to let go will be restrained.
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NewsDisappearing Container Capacity
Recent forecasts and press comments suggest that the major East-West liner trades are suffering weaker growth rates than had been anticipated. The US recession has caused transpacific trade volumes to decline sharply from nearly 10% growth in 2006 to only 2.2% to North America as a whole in 2007. For ...
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NewsU.S. Opinion- Barry Parker
In the past month, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) announced its intention to work with the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal agency tasked with channel maintenance and deepening, on a detailed study of the Bayonne Bridge.
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Barry Parker April 2008 OPINION
An old aphorism teaches that measuring trade flows and shipping rates are a way to take the pulse of an industrial economy. As we are reminded with daily declines in stock market indicators and decreases in employment, the patient has not been doing so well lately. In New York, for ...
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Viewpoint
Nothing has changed, however, with respect to our other criticisms of the process which cover other aspects of the bid submission arrangements, the qualifying criteria and the proposed structure of the concession agreements. In our opinion, there is significant room for improvement in all these areas and we fail to ...
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NewsPort Reform and the Art of Privatisation
At a recent maritime and logistics conference in Israel, (Port2Port) the Israeli ports of Haifa and Ashdod were heavily represented, as was the Port of Aqaba, Jordan, and the subject of port reform and privatisation was high on the agenda.
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NewsPort Congestion: Fact or Myth?
The topic of port congestion is never far from headlines and conference presentations. I have argued in the past that it is more of a management and space utilisation issue than an actual physical space issue.
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PS OPINION PAGE
Greece is at last moving down the path of port privatisation with the partial concessioning of container terminal capacity in Piraeus and the full concessioning of container terminal facilities in Thessaloniki. But is it a fair privatisation process and will it deliver a good result?
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NewsBarry Parker USA Opinion piece
Suddenly, here in the US, we find ourselves in an election year, with the campaign trail full of twists and turns: the only real expectation is to "expect the unexpected".
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Full house
After much deliberation and no doubt plenty of sleepless nights, PD Ports has joined the chosen few in the circle of UK deepsea containerport development granted planning permission.
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PS OPINION PIECE
The global credit crunch may be in play and this may be adding percentage points to the borrowing of port businesses, but this does not mean that the interest of what can be termed new generation investors - private equity concerns and infrastructure funds - in the port sector is ...
