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TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Notwithstanding a rather gloomy picture, we must remember that it is still early days. The implementation of the ISPS Code has been a huge and ambitious global undertaking and we are all…

1st September 2005

A huge and ambitious global undertaking

1st September 2005

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Following the 9/11 attacks, the IMO went into a frenzy of unprecedented activity. Chris Austen analyses the upshot of all this on the ports sector.

1st September 2005

Is it working?

1st September 2005

EUROPE

EUROPE

The proposed open industry standard, the 360 Quality Code, recently put forward by reefer carriers LauritzenCool, Seatrade and NYK Reefer, is wholly supported by Simon Bird and the port of Bristol. While…

1st September 2005

Quality code welcomed

1st September 2005

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Alex Hughes turns to the southwest of England and South Africa to discover what makes for a successful chilled fruit terminal operation.

1st September 2005

Cooling it

1st September 2005

THE INSURER

THE INSURER

All of sudden, if you are a port operator or a port authority, the international insurance market located in London has the welcome mat out for you. In addition to the TT…

1st September 2005

Soft times a-coming

1st September 2005

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

Take three scenarios: Africa, Italy, the UK.

1st September 2005

African Promises, Italian Pizzazz and British Playing Fields

1st September 2005

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

Then move to the Mediterranean. You have to hand it to the Italians. They know all about pizzazz - or is it brio ? that boldness, vigour, style and flamboyance. Whilst polite…

1st September 2005

Its about Pizzazz

1st September 2005

THE ECONOMIST

THE ECONOMIST

Ben Hackett fears something else to lie awake at night and worry about

1st September 2005

Port security: real or imagined?

1st September 2005

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

You would think that after at least ten years of full-on port privatisation that countries wishing to attract new investors, and the investors themselves, would know how to get it right. Two…

1st September 2005

You cannot be serious!

1st September 2005

AFRICA

AFRICA

Officials from the landlocked state of Ethiopia have begun negotiations with the government of Somaliland regarding the use of its Red Sea port of Berbera.

1st September 2005

ETHIOPIA SEEKS PORT AT BERBERA

1st September 2005