Post Script

One of the cardinal sins in the introduction of new port capacity is to deliver it before it is required. All the more so, if government has previously encouraged foreign direct investment…

The proposed P3 alliance between Maersk, MSC and CMA-CGM raises more questions than it answers.

Seven years on from port privatisation in Nigeria port congestion remains a significant problem and is the focus of growing attention.

Effectively loading the result of an open tender is never a good path to realising a positive outcome for a container terminal concession, especially when the concession is awarded to a company…

The Port of Melbourne Corp has published the names of the four parties short-listed for “the right to operate the third international container terminal at the Port of Melbourne.

Name a port that won’t eventually go for a second container terminal operator. You might think Port of Singapore but you would be wrong: included within PSAs operating arrangements are certain dedicated…

Is it relevant for geo-political aspects to intrude into port deals?

Late last year saw President Kibaki preside over the ground breaking ceremony for the Port of Mombasa’s second container terminal. While the event marked progress, it is very slow progress indeed.

For a country that wishes to attract investors from a market sector that in practical terms has only a limited number of players with the resource and will to undertake major container…

Have you ever been responsible for any noteworthy failures in your business career? No, me neither, but apparently it happens.

So the marriage is over – DP World is exiting its container operations in the Yemen seemingly by agreement with the new post-revolutionary government, receiving $27m for its 50% stake in the…

Have you noticed the debate in the on-line Global Ports Forum about who will become the main container terminals in East and West Africa? We have, and have taken it upon ourselves…

Is Mediterranean Shipping Company offering for sale part of its global portfolio of container terminals or is it planning to spin off its terminal division in an initial public offering in Singapore?

It is now just over five years since South Africa’s Regulator – one of the world’s few independent port regulators – first convened.

They say it will represent an important part of the legacy of Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki but how realistic is it to think that Kenya’s new port of Lamu will follow an…

Congestion is back in the East African ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam and to informed observers this comes as no surprise.

Ethiopia, which has had more than one spat with Djibouti over the access it gets to its port facilities, the service levels available there and the price it pays for these, is…

India is a container market that all major international terminal operators want a piece of due to its major growth potential.

You could say here we go again and you would be right.

The question of port capacity and specifically the issue of introducing it at the right time was raised briefly in the last issue of PS but in the light of recent events…

In January 2011, it was announced that China will lend Cameroon 243.5bn CFA francs ($48.7m), the majority of which will be spent on financing new deep-sea port facilities at the port at…

Man eating lions, murder, political controversy, highs and lows - the so-called “Lunatic Line” has seen it all. Where is it? It is the railway built in the era of British East…