Concessions & Investments

Europe’s Environmental Impact Assessment process is set to become ‘increasingly laborious’, thanks to an EC review. Felicity Landon reports.

Connie Chen and Donny Low, of Holman Fenwick Willan’s Ports & Terminals Group, explain the PRC Anti-Monopoly Law and consider its potential application to port operations.

European interest rates are currently very competitive, since the reference Euribor index is at a historically low level, writes Alex Hughes.

For the past eight years, Virginia Port Authority (VPA) has funded equipment purchases either by issuing bonds or as part of an instalment purchase programme, writes Alex Hughes.

It was a change in law that prompted the UK Valuation Office’s review of all 55 large ports across England and Wales; a review that sparked massive confusion for UK ports.

HFW’s Richard Wilmot and Andrew Williams discuss options to challenge unreasonable business rates

APM Terminals recent withdrawal from the 2.15m teu capacity Kaohsiung terminal, and from its 10.5m teu investment in the Yantian facility in the Port of Shenzhen reflect the company’s strategy of focusing…

As the economic tide ebbs, terminal operators continue to invest for the future, writes Patrik Wheater