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After much deliberation and no doubt plentyof sleepless nights, PD Ports has joined the chosen few in the circle of UK deepseacontainerport development granted planning permission.

Drewry Shipping Consultants has revised its estimate of worldcontainer traffic in 2006 to 128.3m teu and expects the figure for 2007to be 142.9m teu, a significant increase driven by rapidly expandingwestbound traffic…

Europe still has its fair share of less than hospitable airports and as this writer navigated one of them recently he opened the door to a rather intimate departure lounge only to…

Give or take a few US politicians, no-one thinks its workable, no-one wants it, it will be expensive but it is in the pipeline. “ It” is, of course, new legislation in…

That word is back again: “ congestion” , and along with it some interesting projections. Two new reports have recently been issued both of which foresee capacity crunches in the port sector. 

Port tariff reform is not a subject that “ rings everyone’ s bell” , but it is an important one worth paying some attention to. Larger ports will tend to have the…

In the UK,if you turn on the radio,look at the television or read the newspaper it is virtually guaranteed that you will be exposed to an array of facts, discussions or opinions…

This issues article, Easy Money, highlights the increasing attractiveness of the ports sector to investment banks, infrastructure and pension funds. They are now figuring to an increasing extent in the growing port…

It is interesting to note that an officer of Kenya Ports Authority has suggested that congestion problems in Dar es Salaam are worse than those prevalent in Mombasa, and that as a…

Space to expand, government backing and support from terminal operators - sounds like any port authoritys dream. But Rotterdam has never been one for dreaming. Heres a port that has always been…