Transshipment

WORLD

WORLD

With a strategic location at the crossroads of global trade routes, ports across the Middle East play a critical role in facilitating trade movement between key markets in the east and the west. AJ Keyes tracks recent activities and assesses…

15th September 2025

Continued Hub Expansion

15th September 2025

INSIGHT & OPINION

INSIGHT & OPINION

Africa Report recently carried a story citing the downturn in container transshipment cargo in South Africa and identifying this as a negative. But this does not tell the whole story, writes Mike Mundy.Source: Pechristener/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0Transshipment is not the…

10th March 2025

South Africa: Transshipment realities

10th March 2025

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) have both announced new operating plans for 2025. AJ Keyes looks at their aims and asks whether Gemini is taking the industry down a blind alley,…

22nd November 2024

Brave new world

22nd November 2024

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

Ian McRobbie, Programme Manager for Ports and Maritime Infrastructure at BMT*, drawing on extensive project experience highlights the merits of optimising bulk transshipment through ‘Climate-Smart’ simulation technology

26th September 2024

De-risking port logistics

26th September 2024

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

Good and bad news for Sri Lanka’s leading container port, Colombo. The facility ended the first half of 2024 with a 9.6% increase in transshipment cargo, due to double digit growth for…

26th September 2024

Sri Lanka struggles

26th September 2024

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

Southeast Asia is a crucial region supporting container transshipment activity. But is it in danger of overdeveloping and generating too much capacity? A J Keyes assesses the position

19th April 2024

Upping the transshipment stakes

19th April 2024

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

MSC is reportedly keen to buy a majority shareholding in Wilson, Sons, the Brazilian based diversified shipping, terminal operating and logistics company.

17th July 2023

MSC and Wilson, Sons link

17th July 2023

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

German ports have battled through a difficult period but continue to maintain a surprisingly strong presence in the transshipment theatre of operations. A J Keyes reviews recent performance.

27th October 2022

Transshipment crucial

27th October 2022

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

Transshipment is evolving as a tool via which to serve peripheral markets. Experience in the Indian Ocean confirms this and the ongoing requirement for port investment, as Andrew Penfold explains

31st July 2022

TRANSSHIPMENT – EVOLVES

31st July 2022

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

South Korea’s ports have been hit with a trucking strike, lockdowns in their largest trading partner market of China and the COVID-19 pandemic. AJ Keyes assesses the impact and what lies ahead

31st July 2022

ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES

31st July 2022