Post Script – Page 5
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NewsHas Gdynia missed the boat?
Traditionally Gdynia has been Poland’s main container import/export gateway but slowly and surely this status has been eroded and the recent announcement by the G6 alliance that it intends to implement calls at the Deepwater Container Terminal (DCT) Gdansk can be seen as another way step in this process.
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NewsPlayground of the alliances
COMMENT: Over the past twelve months the container business has been turned on its head with shifting alliances, the arrival of the mega-ships and an ordering spree with enough capacity to make a grown man cry.
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Piraeus farce
The on-off nature of the concession plans for the port of Piraeus has become something of a joke since the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras and his coalition party took office In January.
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NewsTranshipment opportunity
COMMENT: Not all container transhipment takes place at the mega hubs such as Singapore, Tanjung Pelepas, Busan, Algeciras, Malta Freeport and so on. It can also take place as a healthy adjunct to gateway port operations – import and export activity – unless of course bureaucracy gets in the way.
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NewsA proposition with handcuffs
COMMENT: The Dock Workers Union, the union which represents the majority of workers at the port of Mombasa, Kenya, has stated that it now supports the idea of offering a concession to the private sector for the new 450,000 teu container terminal under development, but only if this first phase ...
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NewsMediterranean battleground
COMMENT: With top of the range containership sizes heading over the 20,000 teu mark and new mega alliance start-ups underway, Mediterranean transhipment operations are heading into a new era.
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NewsDynamar rings Mediterranean movements
Dynamar’s latest intra-Mediterranean container trade report pegs 2015 volumes of full container trade at 15.6m teu, up from 14.9m teu in 2013, expecting it to grow to 17.1m teu by 2017.
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NewsBack on track
COMMENT: Kenya is ahead of Tanzania in seeking to install major new container handling capacity on Africa’s eastern seaboard.
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NewsIn the slow lane
There is now serious doubt that Nigeria’s new Ports and Harbour Bill, the new legislation intended to ‘right the wrongs’ of the earlier comprehensive port concession process, will be enacted in the current term of President Goodluck Jonathan due to end in 2015.
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NewsGhana ups the ante
COMMENT: Ghana has added its name to the growing list of ports along the West African coast which have firm plans to add new deepwater capacity.
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NewsDeeper dredging demands
New deeper draft vessels keep coming, as do vessels with a wider beam and length overall dictating the need for deeper channel depth and draft alongside quays as well as other requirements such as larger turning circles.
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NewsMexico: lessons from organised crime
COMMENT: The Mexican Pacific Coast port of Lazaro Cardenas highlights the negative impact of organised crime.
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NewsMissed opportunity
Picture this if you will: you have no experience in the container handling business but assisted by the fact that you have a strategic partner, who does know the business, you win a small but interesting container terminal concession.
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NewsDar saga plays on
The saga of the construction of berths 13 and 14 at Dar es Saalam port – the berths intended to provide much needed new container capacity – continues.
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NewsDealing with the fallout
However you add it up the container shipping industry is experiencing turbulent times.
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NewsToo much, too soon for Rijeka
One of the cardinal sins in the introduction of new port capacity is to deliver it before it is required. All the more so, if government has previously encouraged foreign direct investment into the same sector and it is clear that this has delivered adequate capacity for the long term.
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NewsMore questions than answers
The proposed P3 alliance between Maersk, MSC and CMA-CGM raises more questions than it answers.
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NewsUnfinished business
Seven years on from port privatisation in Nigeria port congestion remains a significant problem and is the focus of growing attention.
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NewsTanzania shake-up
A shake-up is underway at the Tanzania Ports Authority as part of broad-based efforts to improve port efficiency.
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NewsBrains not brawn
The 21st century will progressively see the deployment of a port labour force that uses its head rather than its muscle power.
