Concessions & Investments

A Middle East port operator has issued US$1bn 10-year bonds to help realise its capital expenditure programme across its asset portfolio over the next ten years.

Australia’s container transport industry is stridently opposing new increases in landside fees and charges applied by Patrick Terminals from 1 March.

A joint application for EU funding designed to facilitate assisting ports to become sustainable multimodal nodes has been submitted by the ports of Stockholm, Belfast, Lubeck and Gent.

The National Port Company (CPN) of Nicaragua forecasts it will handle five million tonnesin 2021, which compares to 4.5 million tonnes in 2020.

In this first of three articles focused on port sector investments, Watson Farley & Williams LLP,details the most important initial considerations.

Iain MacIntyre finds out how ports have had to overcome old-fashioned thinking to ensure a viable workforce in the future

WSP’s Johan-Paul Verschuure explains why the gap needs to be bridged between financial institutions and port opportunities in developing markets