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Is the last major listed port group in the UK, Forth Ports, about to be acquired by Babcock & Brown, the same Australian-based infrastructure fund that recently acquired the PD Ports Group?…

11th February 2008

Forth Ports, going, going gone?

11th February 2008

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Just published by Dynamar B.V. is its Top 25 Container Liner Operators/TradingProfiles publication which is a must buy study for any organisationinterested in these 25 entities who collectively move 80% of theworlds…

19th December 2007

Liner insight

19th December 2007

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The world of transhipment and feedering has proved to be one of the growth pillars of the container industry over the last decade and nowhere is it better analysed than in a…

7th November 2007

PS Page

7th November 2007

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The Port of Dakar, Senegal is reportedly in the process of privatising its container terminal facilities – or is it? 

1st May 2007

Show your hand

1st May 2007

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It is an interesting phenomenon of the 21st Century that the international container handling market has seen available containerport capacity dry up in so-called mature markets. It happened on the US West…

1st April 2007

Capacity drain

1st April 2007

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Environmentis a word that will progressively burn its way into the psyche of business in the 21st century. Inevitably, with trends in motion such as global warming, there will increasingly be a…

1st March 2007

Green credentials

1st March 2007

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The end of 2006 and very early part of 2007 saw industrial action in Europes ports on a scale that has not been experienced for some time. The last week of December…

1st January 2007

Mind your Ps

1st January 2007

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You must play boldly to win.So said Arnold Palmer, famous American golfer and obviously someone Captain Richard Setchell of Sydney-based Anglo Ports has a good deal in common with.

1st December 2006

To Boldly Go…

1st December 2006

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Southamptons sensible UKport development proposal throws yet more doubt on the increasingly expensive alternative options

1st November 2006

Party poopers

1st November 2006

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In mid-September George Vlachos, Greeces General Secretary for Ports and Policy, announced that the country is close to making a decision on long-term management contracts for the ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki.…

1st October 2006

The right dressing

1st October 2006

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In the case of London Gateway, it is already known that costs for the project have spiralled hugely since the original days of the projects conception and its early development under P&…

1st September 2006

Gateway spiral

1st September 2006

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Interesting to note the saga that is playing itself out in the Port of Marseilles whereby crane operators and other workers employed by the port authority recently stopped work - for three…

1st August 2006

Thumbs Down

1st August 2006

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What goes thud, thud, thud? Sound of a small container vessel skating along a quayside in an erratic departure?

1st June 2006

Thud, Thud, Thud

1st June 2006

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Felicity Landon, one of PS trusty band of freelance contributors, commented the other day that she found ports and shipping by far the most interesting of the industries she writes about. She…

1st April 2006

To unsung heroes?

1st April 2006

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Now the TT Clubs TT Talk is always an interesting read. From a recent edition comes this statistical gem: " Good news reaches us from the United States where reader Alan Spear,…

1st April 2006

Truck crime: the good news

1st April 2006

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As reported in our Europe news this month, the Hamburg stevedore HHLA is training its first female port workers as gantry crane operators and van drivers.

1st April 2006

..including Fraulein Gantry Crane Driver

1st April 2006

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Take three scenarios: Africa, Italy, the UK.

1st September 2005

African Promises, Italian Pizzazz and British Playing Fields

1st September 2005

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Then move to the Mediterranean. You have to hand it to the Italians. They know all about pizzazz - or is it brio ? that boldness, vigour, style and flamboyance. Whilst polite…

1st September 2005

Its about Pizzazz

1st September 2005

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A UK election has been called and the last time this happened when there were any particular port issues on the agenda was when Margaret Thatcher was in power and overseeing a…

1st May 2005

UK Port Plans – No Election fever here!

1st May 2005

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Every so often something really nasty comes along doesnt it?

1st September 2004

Its life Jim, but not as we know it

1st September 2004