Post Script
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NewsUnder the microscope
Australia has traditionally had a strong interest in putting its waterfront industry under the microscope and considering how it can raise port performance.
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Market share versus profits
Mature markets today bring new challenges in delivering major new port capacity, especially in a competitive climate. The issue is how to reconcile the economic impact-orientated agenda of port landlords with the profit motive of terminal operators? Andrew Penfold investigates.
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Lines and terminals: another twist?
Container shipping lines have done very well from Covid. Freight rates reached exorbitantly high levels between mid-2021 and the first half of 2022.
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High stakes ‘game’ in play
It is interesting to speculate what will happen when DP World’s two terminal contracts at Jawaharlal Nehru Port – India’s second biggest container gateway in volume terms – come to the end of their concession lifetimes in 2028.
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The World Turned On Its Head?
Is there a seismic shift underway in the traditional rules of engagement? Will the world we know today be turned on its head and what are the priorities to survive in this challenging new world? Andrew Penfold charts the future
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SUMMER OF DISCONTENT
This is the summer of discontent in Europe with a raft of port and wider transport strikes in play. What is the solution, is there one? Equally, it is important that wider workforce issues are not overlooked with the current focus on pay and keeping pace with inflation.
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TICKING TIMEBOMB
The blockade of Ukraine’s grain export ports represents a ticking timebomb for some of the poorest nations in the world cut-off from the supply of essential foodstuffs.
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BIDEN GRANTS WELCOME BUT…
So-called ‘Biden grants’ aim to raise the performance of US supply chains. They are a positive step but is there linked up thinking involved and when will their impact be felt?
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BOLLORE: THE BIG SALE
The recent announcement that the Bollore Group is putting its African Logistics assets up for sale was not entirely unexpected, there have been murmurs in the market. What followed in short order was, however, a little surprising, namely granting the MSC Group, best known for its top tier ranking among ...
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US WEST COAST: MORE NEEDED
Comprehensive measures continue to be introduced across the US West Coast (USWC) to alleviate the prevailing port congestion, but will they have the desired effect or are they hampered by fundamental flaws?
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DO IT THE WwN WAY
PIANC’S Working with Nature (WwN) approach to major dredging projects has much to recommend it. It is proven to work well in conjunction with river or estuary ports, the port of Seville being the latest recipient of the prestigious Certificate of Recognition that follows successful project implementation..
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DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR?
Political statements made in Barbados suggest a main Caribbean transshipment role for Barbados but market realities suggest otherwise.
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DARWIN’S CHINA OWNERSHIP UNDER REVIEW
The port of Darwin, Northern Territories, Australia has been sucked into the ongoing dispute between China and Australia.
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VALENCIA: BALANCE SECURED
New container terminal development in Valencia appears to have struck the right balance in a challenging environmental situation.
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ESPO PLOTS OPS USE
The release of the framework document: Towards an Intelligent Framework for Onshore Power Supply by the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO), signposts the rapidly increasing interest in powering ships at berth by this method as a path to reducing co2 emissions and air pollution in ports.
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OZ COAL: NEW ‘DANCE’ PARTNERS
The unofficial ban by China on Australian coal imports is resulting in a structural shift in seaborne coal trading patterns.
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A LABOURED PATH
It is interesting that during a time when there was a clear need to “pull together,” 2020 featured a number of high-profile port labour strikes – in Australia, Argentina, Canada, France, Portugal amongst others.
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MUA: THE BIGGER PICTURE
Victoria International Container Terminals is the latest Australian terminal operator to be dragged into conflict with the Maritime Union of Australia. The MUA cites failure to reach an Enterprise Agreement as the cause but is this the whole story?
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BCT TAPS COMODALECE FOR ENHANCED INTERMODAL RAIL
The Baltic Container Terminal (BCT), Gdynia is harnessing the powers of the EU’s COMODALECE project to deliver a major uplift in the efficiency of intermodal rail operations.
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THE WRONG ROUTE TO MARKET?
The development of the new container/multipurpose terminal at the port of Takoradi, Ghana is advancing but questions remain about the process – or lack of process – which is bringing it to the market.
