Viewpoint

As I walked around Limassol port last month and watched the port manager calmly overseeing thousands of evacuees using his port as a springboard for other destinations, I have to say I…

The UK Ports Policy Review Roadshow rolled into London on 25 May and was the focus of some serious attention as well as merriment by industry participants and analysts alike.

This is the last Viewpoint I shall be writing. Im returning to my old business of ships agency, and to my old firm, Inchcape Shipping Services after three terrific years editing PS.

Cause and effect is a common method of organizing and discussing ideas so lets take a look at some cases relevant to this issue of PS. Mankind has always favoured coastal dwelling.…

Theres no getting away from the Big Issue. Port congestion, in many parts of the world, is becoming endemic, but how did we get caught out and whats to be done about…

Like it or not, George W. Bush is back for a second term and it remains to be seen just what his administration will serve up on contentious issues such as trade…

In the BBC Radio 4s Something Understood programme, Sir Mark Tully examines some of the larger questions of life by taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through the thoughts, ideas and…

Credence is still given in certain circles to the idea that in order to provide a really competitive container handling service there has to be more than two companies providing such a…

Well, not quite perhaps. But is there a reader of this magazine who simply doesnt give a stuff about the environment? I doubt it.

That salty old scribe Mike Grey wrote in Lloyds List recently of the dangers of buying into the notion that pilots could be replaced by sea traffic controllers based in the VTS…

No one wants government to have too strong an influence over a privatised port environment but some sort of architecture in which coordinated development can take place is essential. The international port…

The diversity of activity surrounding a port never ceases to impress. Its a microcosm of trade and logistics, labour relations, security issues, IT, investment in equipment and infrastructure, insurance, the law, marketing,…

Terrorist attack, human error, the weather - whatever the cause, oil pollution is a messy business. Last month, seven and a half years after the SEA EMPRESS grounded in Milford Havens approaches…

Thirty-odd years ago a little single-decker called the HELMSDALE traded from Orkney to Leith with barrels, butts and hogsheads for the Midlothian distilleries. The whisky cargo was just too much of a…