The New Yorker

INSIGHT & OPINION

INSIGHT & OPINION

“We live in interesting times” is a cliché with broad applicability across the maritime business. Lately, it seems to be directly on target. Barry Parker

5th May 2026

Interesting Times

5th May 2026

INSIGHT & OPINION

INSIGHT & OPINION

The potential of trade corridors and the impact on shipping fuels.

5th March 2026

Sticks to Carrots

5th March 2026

INSIGHT & OPINION

INSIGHT & OPINION

The on again, off again, backwards, and forwards action on the tariff front, along with similar course shifts (at least temporarily) on fees tied to vessel ownership, continues.

20th November 2025

Backwards & forwards

20th November 2025

INSIGHT & OPINION

INSIGHT & OPINION

Political considerations continue to be profound influencers on the North American ports

15th September 2025

An Emerging Matrix

15th September 2025

THE NEW YORKER

THE NEW YORKER

As predicted in the previous issue, the one certainty for port planners is going to be uncertainty, and unpredictability, at least for a while.

23rd May 2025

Politization & digitalisation, promising bedfellows

23rd May 2025

INSIGHT & OPINION

INSIGHT & OPINION

Trump 2.0, as many commentators are referring to the second term of the President, has started with a flourish, or, according to some, “with a bang”.

7th March 2025

Political fireworks/uncertain times undermine accurate forecasting

7th March 2025

INSIGHT & OPINION

INSIGHT & OPINION

On “the day after”, I am hoping- along with millions of others, for some calm, after one of the most contentious election seasons in memory.

22nd November 2024

Election: full steam ahead

22nd November 2024

INSIGHT & OPINION

INSIGHT & OPINION

A reinvigorated legislative effort may propel the guts of The Reinvesting In Shoreline Economies and Ecosystems (or RISEE) Act into the Federal statutes.

26th September 2024

RISEE act proposes sharing wind power returns

26th September 2024

INSIGHT & OPINION

INSIGHT & OPINION

While the ports, and business entities within them, are buttressed by the ideas underlying “free trade,” they are not immune from being caught up in political rip currents. 

25th July 2024

STS cranes – navigating a way out of the political rip currents

25th July 2024

INSIGHT & OPINION

INSIGHT & OPINION

There are two clichés that go along with any discussion of ports- something to the effect of “You’ve seen one- you’ve seen one,” and then another along the lines of “Ports are…

30th May 2024

Thinking beyond dali

30th May 2024