Post Script

Comprehensive measures continue to be introduced across the US West Coast (USWC) to alleviate the prevailing port congestion, but will they have the desired effect or are they hampered by fundamental flaws?

New container terminal development in Valencia appears to have struck the right balance in a challenging environmental situation.

The release of the framework document: Towards an Intelligent Framework for Onshore Power Supply by the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO), signposts the rapidly increasing interest in powering ships at berth by…

The unofficial ban by China on Australian coal imports is resulting in a structural shift in seaborne coal trading patterns.

It is interesting that during a time when there was a clear need to “pull together,” 2020 featured a number of high-profile port labour strikes – in Australia, Argentina, Canada, France, Portugal…

Victoria International Container Terminals is the latest Australian terminal operator to be dragged into conflict with the Maritime Union of Australia. The MUA cites failure to reach an Enterprise Agreement as the…

Transnet, the multi-division government-owned provider of port and rail services in South Africa,has been under fire recently with a whole range of customer led criticisms ranging from corruption toinappropriate pricing arriving at…

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with over 200 million inhabitants, is often cited as a land of great potential but as seen time and time again it has been slow to realise…

What does an investor expect from a public private partnership (PPP) in the port sector?

Poland has turned into the Baltic Sea’s main container hub, with volumes outstripping evenRussia’s Baltic ports. And there are significant plans to consolidate this position, with every Polish port lining up ambitious…

COMMENT: Following a Complaint filed by Dr Carlos Figueroa, a well-known political activist and medical doctor in Ecuador, the country’s Attorney General has initiated an investigation into the award of the 50-year…

COMMENT: Port Strategy hears that the world’s number threecontainer line, CMA CGM, is interested in exploiting port and transport corridor opportunities in Djibouti, the primary gateway for Ethiopian cargo.

COMMENT: The so-called third phase of Greek port privatisation is reportedly on the starting-blocks – but is it really?

COMMENT: In 1970, Sonya Gandhi, former president of the Indian National Congress, presented two Indian elephants - Sony and Lanka - to former Yugoslavia President Josip Broz Tito at his Summer Residence…

COMMENT: Finally, after more than a decade of delays at Nigeria’s National Assembly, the Nigerian Ports and Harbours Bill is in the final stages of approval that will lead to its enactment.