Insight and Opinion
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NewsUnder the microscope
Australia has traditionally had a strong interest in putting its waterfront industry under the microscope and considering how it can raise port performance.
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Era of uncertainty presents difficult investment decisions
UNCTAD, in its yearly flagship publication, the review of Maritime Transport, has highlighted the considerable uncertainty facing shipping and ports.
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2023: disruptors to make their Presence felt
2022 ended bleakly as the global economy headed towards a recession. 2023 does not look optimistic for the coming six months at least. Time to batten down the hatches.
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New planning canvas in prospect
It is a new year, with a new Congress, and new sets of battles to be fought.
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Big is not always beautiful: Tell us about it!
At Port Strategy we focus a lot on the larger port and terminal facilities – we are very mindful, however, that the larger ports and facilities in them are not the whole story.
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An era of spending but what is round the corner?
As our story Port and Terminal Investors Crowd Inmakes clear there is a lot of activity at the moment directed at buying into terminal sector opportunities with much of this coming from shipping lines.
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Port of Singapore to take a stake in Adani ports?
The India-headquartered Adani Group, which includes Adani Ports & SEZ, is reportedly engaged in raising US$10 billion in lower cost green bonds.
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What comes after normal and new normal?
We are entering a new world with little clarity of the future as we face either a return to the old ways or live in a state of perma-crisis.
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Methanol - competitive asset for Maersk and partner ports?
Leading container line Maersk is clearly an early mover when it comes to transitioning to clean fuels.
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Pivotal role for ports in making green corridors work
As a writer on maritime business, I am frequently asked, “What are you writing about these days?”
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Plenty To Think About
There is no mistaking the fact that ‘Xmas’ is over in the container shipping sector. Lean times are ahead in the majority of world markets compounded by the age-old folly of too much new shipping capacity too soon.
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Market share versus profits
Mature markets today bring new challenges in delivering major new port capacity, especially in a competitive climate. The issue is how to reconcile the economic impact-orientated agenda of port landlords with the profit motive of terminal operators? Andrew Penfold investigates.
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Thumbs up to green corridors but big challenges lie ahead
Maritime news pages are awash with talk of ‘green corridors’. It Is a great move to set them up now because zero-emissions’ ships won’t enter the market until 2030.
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Time to measure it and manage it
The supply chains are constrained- that is something that all the panellists agreed on during a presentation at Capital Link’s 2022 Maritime Forum in New York.
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Conditions for port business ecosystem development
DP World, the developer of London Gateway, made two recent announcements, signaling the steady development of the London Gateway port business ecosystem.
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IAPH focus: closing the gaps
Against a background of port systems and supply chains under immense pressure during the onslaught of COVID-19…
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Economic chaos caused by zombie policies
Misguided policies are causing an unprecedented collapse in global economic confidence leading to further inflation and rising costs of living and a global recession.
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Lines and terminals: another twist?
Container shipping lines have done very well from Covid. Freight rates reached exorbitantly high levels between mid-2021 and the first half of 2022.
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Beyond the tipping point, what next?
So, the tipping point has arrived, and a de-escalation is underway of container freight rates and of severe container congestion.
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High stakes ‘game’ in play
It is interesting to speculate what will happen when DP World’s two terminal contracts at Jawaharlal Nehru Port – India’s second biggest container gateway in volume terms – come to the end of their concession lifetimes in 2028.
