Post Script

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…

What are the consequences of the world recession for the international container terminal operating sector? Weve put together a rundown of a few that are manifest and some that are just emerging.

The order of things is changing in Mediterranean container transhipment operations.

Dynamar has chosen an interesting time for the release of a new report entitled, Container Throughput & Terminal Capacity in Europe.

Are the good old days back or were the good old days really the bad old days?

There are still some very strange things that go on in the ports sector – things that unless you have a vested interest don’t seem to add up at all.

The general perception now is that the crisis in Dubai is easing and that the implications of the financial fall out for DP World will be limited. But is this the case?

Light at the end of the tunnel or just a train coming the other way?