The Strategist

Drewry Shipping Consultants newly released Top 10 container terminal operators ranking lists the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA), not surprisingly, at the No 1 slot, becoming the first company to register an…

A word of caution - there is presently a lot of hot air being talkedabout investment opportunities in the ports sector. Some of it isunderstandable as, to be frank, it is coming…

Lean times usually always teach us something and in Spain it can beseen that dock labour is beginning to get to grips with the realitythat healthy pay rises and as much overtime…

London black cab drivers see life close up and are renowned forhaving a forthright view on world events, so it came as no surprisethen to be told recently by a cabbie, confidence…

Some interesting plans are brewing in Beirut. Informedsources indicate that the Beirut port managementis planning a port extension which will incorporate a new container terminalfacility developed specifically for use by CMA CGM…

Are you bombproof? Can you weather thesetimes of economic and financial turbulence? A few suggestions that might helpand if some are a little tongue in cheek then the times dictate the need…

What is it they say, you haveno friends in business? Well it seems that Maersk Line, the worldsleading container line in terms of slot capacity, is set to prove thisold adage.

Only relatively few ports and terminaloperating groups have looked to a stock market listing as a way of raising cashto expand, but why? Invariably those that do take this route receive a…