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Cost efficiencies can come from cutting your debt interest rates, or joining forces with a rival to develop joint systems, as ports in the US and New Zealand have demonstrated.

Innovation abounds when it comes to uncovering recession-beating cost savings, as Iain MacIntyre finds out

Its all about the money - good and bad - as we welcome in 2013, finds Martin Rushmere

Port Integration, a European Union Interreg project, has brought together 13 port and political partners from ten EU countries and Russia for three years of workshops and best practice visits.

Ports are no longer mere technical challenges; they are modern day job factories says Martin Rushmere

It has become much more difficult to make a forecast at the macro level, and as a result people are now finding it hard to get a handle on what the future…

Using port data to visually map the environment can be a cost effective way to manage operations, as Stevie Knight reports

Stevie Knight asks why ports still lag behind the other industry sectors on performance indicators

Stevie Knight asks how important social awareness is in todays tighter tender processes

Stevie Knight argues that proactive ports will win the next growth battle