Post Script – Page 7
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NewsThe Berbera option
Ethiopia, which has had more than one spat with Djibouti over the access it gets to its port facilities, the service levels available there and the price it pays for these, is soon to have a new port gateway made available to it.
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NewsAn extraordinary affair
The early expulsion of Getma International, a subsidiary of the NCT Necotrans group, from its 25-year concession for the Conakry container terminal in Guinea has all the hallmarks of a most extraordinary affair.
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NewsAn Indian first
International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has entered the burgeoning Indian container market in an innovative way.
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NewsA new dawn
India is a container market that all major international terminal operators want a piece of due to its major growth potential.
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NewsA balancing act
The question of port capacity and specifically the issue of introducing it at the right time was raised briefly in the last issue of PS but in the light of recent events it is worthy of further discussion.
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NewsThe China effect
In January 2011, it was announced that China will lend Cameroon 243.5bn CFA francs ($48.7m), the majority of which will be spent on financing new deep-sea port facilities at the port at Kribi in the south of the central African nation.
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NewsAll aboard
Man eating lions, murder, political controversy, highs and lows - the so-called “Lunatic Line” has seen it all. Where is it? It is the railway built in the era of British East Africa that runs from Mombasa to Kisumu on the shores of Lake Victoria and on to Kampala in ...
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Polish conversion
The fact that Poland’s newest container terminal DCT Gdansk took a long time to find the financing required for its set-up was no accident.
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NewsRinging the changes
What are the consequences of the world recession for the international container terminal operating sector? We''ve put together a rundown of a few that are manifest and some that are just emerging.
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NewsChanging the guards
The order of things is changing in Mediterranean container transhipment operations.
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NewsOpening the box
Dynamar has chosen an interesting time for the release of a new report entitled, Container Throughput & Terminal Capacity in Europe.
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NewsA much needed correction
Are the good old days back or were the good old days really the bad old days?
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NewsAfrica explored
Under the control of the World Bank, a major study has recently been conducted into the African ports industry studying both sub-Saharan African and North African ports.
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NewsDumb and dumber
There are still some very strange things that go on in the ports sector – things that unless you have a vested interest don’t seem to add up at all.
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NewsSmoke and Mirrors
The general perception now is that the crisis in Dubai is easing and that the implications of the financial fall out for DP World will be limited. But is this the case?
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PS PAGE
Now available from our parent company Mercator Media are the papers in powerpoint form from the recent Private Capital & Ports Conference held in London. These are genuinely regarded as essential reading by all ports and terminal operators who now confront a somewhat different climate in the banking sector and ...
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PS PAGE COPY
The Black Sea, the so-called ''inland sea'' bordered by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus, is one of the areas of the world most negatively impacted by the recent economic downturn. But longer term this is a region that offers significant potential for container shipping and terminal operations.
