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The UK’s busiest passenger and roll-on / roll-off (ro-ro) port, Dover, has launched its longer-term strategic masterplan…

24th November 2023

Port of Dover 2050

24th November 2023

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

The Port Authority of Gdańsk has signed a grant agreement for a new largescale project, known as…

24th November 2023

Gdańsk Grant

24th November 2023

EUROPE

EUROPE

It might have provoked a negative reaction from certain members of the Hamburg establishment – Hapag Lloyd, Eurokai Group and Kuehne & Nagel for example – but MSC’s audacious bid to buy…

24th November 2023

MSC – HHLA transaction on course to close 2nd quarter 2024

24th November 2023

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OPERATIONS

The world’s largest free trade area has been created and is to be known…

24th November 2023

AfCTA Created

24th November 2023

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OPERATIONS

It’s all change again at the Brazilian port ministry where key officials have been replaced for political reasons and where the STS 10 tender in Santos (to build a new container terminal…

24th November 2023

All change at Brazil’s port ministry and tactics as well?

24th November 2023

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

At the conclusion of the 2023 World Ports Conference in Abu Dhabi, incoming IAPH president Jens Meier announced that Hamburg Port Authority will be the host sponsor of next year’s IAPH conference.

24th November 2023

IAPH World Ports Conference 2024

24th November 2023

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

The extreme weather phenomena in northern and southern Brazil (see feature article) and its effects on ports in those regions has led to “extreme congestion” at the port of Santos, the biggest…

24th November 2023

Santos also impacted by extreme weather events

24th November 2023

WORLD

WORLD

It has been a challenging year for US South Atlantic ports. AJ Keyes  looks at what has been going on and what ports in the region are doing moving into 2024

24th November 2023

No standing still

24th November 2023

INSIGHT & OPINION

INSIGHT & OPINION

Labour issues just can’t go away.

24th November 2023

Labour issues: ports should ramp up their engagement

24th November 2023

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The Port of Long Beach, Jacobsen Pilot Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)…

24th November 2023

Precision Navigation

24th November 2023

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OPERATIONS

The industry thought the covid pandemic resulted in chaotic macro-economic and port statistics. It seems the period since the pandemic remains equally complex in Europe. J-P Verschuure* looks at changes in the…

24th November 2023

2023 statistical decoupling

24th November 2023

EUROPE

EUROPE

Shipping lines are stepping-up investment in key European ports. The regulators have focused on liner and stevedore market shares. Are they behind the game and what is in the true interests of…

24th November 2023

A game changer?

24th November 2023

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

Felicity Landon highlights news and experience of interest to the ports sector at London International Shipping Week – energy transition and safety are to the fore

24th November 2023

Cutting edge thinking

24th November 2023

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OPERATIONS

The Port of Jacksonville is the most northerly port in Florida, and it has a very clear focus, as the “global gateway to Florida, the nation’s third largest state,” and, as a…

24th November 2023

Jacksonville continues to look south.

24th November 2023

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

SSE Energy Solutions has signed a strategic partnership with the owners of Hunterston Port and Resource Campus (Hunterston PARC) to…

24th November 2023

Renewable Hunterston

24th November 2023

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Terminal operating systems (TOS) are undergoing developments ranging from more emphasis on subscription payments, new advanced modules and a split between companies that develop the solutions and those that implement them.

24th November 2023

TOS: Age of the add on

24th November 2023

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OPERATIONS

Data can be the magic ingredient for port and terminal optimisation – but not just any old data. Get it wrong and the impact can be devastating. As Chad Van Derrick of…

24th November 2023

Quality not quantity

24th November 2023

ASIA

ASIA

Land-locked Uzbekistan is pushing on a number of fronts to establish new routes -multi modal corridors - to global markets. Oleksandr Gavrylyuk tracks the key initiatives underway

24th November 2023

Corridor options explored

24th November 2023

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

Teconnave, a new company set up by MSC subsidiary Portonave, is all set to take over the former APM Terminal Itajai, from early next year with a contract that will last at…

24th November 2023

Itajai: The Wait Goes On

24th November 2023

INSIGHT & OPINION

INSIGHT & OPINION

Strikes, tax avoidance allegations, a cyber-attack and heavy criticism of new terminal access charges; 2023 is shaping up to be an annus horribilis year for DP World Australia

24th November 2023

DPW Australia – annus horribilis

24th November 2023