The Analyst
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THE UK FREEPORTS INITIATIVE
18/09/2020COMMENT: The UK, after claiming that the EU had been holding back the development of UK’s ports, launched a UK Freeports initiative as a major instrument to shape the UK’s economic development post-Brexit, writes Peter de Langen. READ more
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HHLA AND EUROGATE COOPERATION
26/07/2020COMMENT: The news from end of May 2020 that HHLA (Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG) and Eurogate are holding discussions on cooperating in the container segment in northern Germany, may well mark a turning point in the German Hanseatic port READ more
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PUBLIC PURCHASE OF IMPERIAL QUESTIONED
25/06/2020COMMENT: The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to lead to increased state involvement in the transport industry; for airlines it has already begun, writes Peter de Langen. READ more
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Lasting Effect of Coronavirus on Ports?
08/05/2020COMMENT: The Coronavirus clearly is having a huge global impact, most importantly through affecting the health of millions of people and the loss of human lives, writes Peter de Langen. READ more
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SHARE PRICES DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIA
07/05/2020COMMENT: In this column, I am venturing into an area I have little expertise in (and as a disclaimer: no personal stake); the evolution of stock prices of terminal operators in the COVID-19 pandemia, writes Peter de Langen. READ more
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The ownership of port operators
20/03/2020COMMENT: The move of DP World's parent company (Port and Free Zone World) to purchase shares traded on Nasdaq Dubai and delist the company is highly interesting, writes Peter de Langen. READ more
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Smart ports & smart cities
17/02/2020COMMENT: A number of leading ports (including, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Montreal) decided to participate jointly in the Smart Cities Summit, held in Barcelona in 2019. Two things became clear from this event, writes Barry Parker. READ more
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Ports and export competitiveness
10/12/2019COMMENT: In drafting port policies and assessing the benefits of investments in port development, we often stress the link between better ports and export competitiveness, writes Peter de Langen. READ more
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INTRA-PORT COMPETITION IN BUENOS AIRES
15/11/2019COMMENT: One of the best-known cases of port reform aimed to create intra-port competition is that of Buenos Aires, the largest port of Argentina, writes Peter de Langen. READ more
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Emerging competition between ‘Port innovation systems'
23/10/2019The recent news that the Singapore sovereign wealth fund, Temasek, and the global freight forwarder, Kuehne + Nagel, will start a venture fund, to be based in Singapore and called Reefknot Investments, is the latest of various initiatives that have READ more
