Bulk Handling

Trade protectionism has been blamed for an overall slowdown in volumes at world ports in the first quarter of this year, with the throughput growth rate down 2.9 percentage points year-on-year.

TT Club has made an impassioned plea to the container industry to “embrace technology to save lives”.

It isn’t the size of your port that matters – it’s what you do with it. Felicity Landon reports on a new ‘connectivity index’

Avoid the empty promises of automation and think about the bigger productivity picture, advises Alex Hughes.

DP World reports a record 70 million teu passing through its terminals in 2017 allowing the operator to achieve 10.1% volume growth.

Navis chief technology officer (CTO) has identified the technology trends in the ocean shipping sector that he views as having the greatest impact in 2018 and beyond.

Work place injuries still account for almost a third of insurance claims costs for ports and terminals according to TT Club analyses.