Post Script – Page 6

  • India needs to re-think its investor 'attractiveness'
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    Call for common sense

    2012-12-19T10:00:00Z

    For a country that wishes to attract investors from a market sector that in practical terms has only a limited number of players with the resource and will to undertake major container terminal developments some might say that India’s approach to delivering efficient and timely concessions needs a major overhaul.

  • Andy Sandford, editor of Engineering Capacity
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    Failing to succeed

    2012-11-04T20:53:00Z

    Have you ever been responsible for any noteworthy failures in your business career? No, me neither, but apparently it happens.

  • Container capacity in the Mediterranean can be hard to define. Credit Nasa
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    Mediterranean musings

    2012-11-01T16:01:00Z

    Determining prospects for Mediterranean container demand and capacity can be a sticky business. Covering cultures as diverse as the Black Sea and North Africa, and Greece and Turkey, it can be a challenge to join the container capacity dots.

  • TThe Yemen and DP World have severed their container ties
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    DPW's Aden arrangement ends in divorce

    2012-09-27T11:02:00Z

    So the marriage is over – DP World is exiting its container operations in the Yemen seemingly by agreement with the new post-revolutionary government, receiving $27m for its 50% stake in the Yemen container terminal.

  • Who will win the hub port race in Africa? Credit: Jonas B
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    The transhipment race

    2012-07-12T11:06:00Z

    Have you noticed the debate in the on-line Global Ports Forum about who will become the main container terminals in East and West Africa? We have, and have taken it upon ourselves to score some of the suggestions.

  • Is an IPO or a direct sale in the offing for the Swiss shipping line's terminal assets? Credit: Alf van Beem
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    Fact or fiction

    2012-06-13T10:30:00Z

    Is Mediterranean Shipping Company offering for sale part of its global portfolio of container terminals or is it planning to spin off its terminal division in an initial public offering in Singapore?

  • South Africa's regulator is showing its true colours. Credit: Coda
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    The regulator

    2012-05-30T10:00:00Z

    It is now just over five years since South Africa’s Regulator – one of the world’s few independent port regulators – first convened.

  • Lamu has environmental and other issues. Credit: Magnus Kjaergaard
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    Legacy or lunacy?

    2012-04-05T14:44:00Z

    They say it will represent an important part of the legacy of Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki but how realistic is it to think that Kenya’s new port of Lamu will follow an effective development programme?

  • Lethal cocktail of factional in-fighting, corruption, and dock labour force unrest is disrupting Mombasa port progress
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    Lethal cocktail

    2012-03-14T10:00:00Z

    Congestion is back in the East African ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam and to informed observers this comes as no surprise.

  • Lines have failed to bring excess capacity in check. Credit: Dirk Ingo Franke
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    Bad times cometh

    2012-02-08T10:00:00Z

    Ask any container shipping line about its New Year’s resolution and it has to be finding the path to stem financial losses.

  • The challenge by rival Felixstowe may have put a spanner in the works for ABP Southampton's expansion plans
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    Hostile climate

    2011-12-21T10:00:00Z

    Last month, the Port of Felixstowe secured a judicial review of ABP Southampton’s plans to extend the berth line of the Southampton Container Terminal by 500 metres.

  • APM Terminals is to take on Gothenburg's SCT
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    Deal certainty

    2011-11-16T10:00:00Z

    There have been a few instances over the past year where the transition from Preferred Bidder to being award a terminal concession has been unusually swift.

  • Felixstowe's robots give muscle to the UK port's quest for supremacy
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    Cyber-style UK domination

    2011-11-08T10:00:00Z

    Felicity Landon reports on a bit of a Doctor Who moment on the quayside at Felixstowe.

  • Improved security regulations prompted by 9/11 are to applauded. Credit: US Coast Guard
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    Benefits born out of adversity

    2011-09-21T10:00:00Z

    The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 brought fundamental change to the ports sector. And while this change was born out of adversity much of it is change that can now be regarded as positive.

  • Berbera might prove a viable alternative to Djibouti. Credit: Brian Dell
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    The Berbera option

    2011-09-14T18:18:00Z

    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.

  • Guinea's roller-coaster concessioning ride shows no signs of stopping any time soon
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    An extraordinary affair

    2011-08-30T07:50:00Z

    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.

  • ICTSI has struck an unusual deal in India. Credit: Ronaldo Lazzari
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    An Indian first

    2011-06-08T10:00:00Z

    International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has entered the burgeoning Indian container market in an innovative way.

  • Sunrise
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    A new dawn

    2011-05-25T10:00:00Z

    India is a container market that all major international terminal operators want a piece of due to its major growth potential.

  • Mombasa needs to take charge of its berth commissioning
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    Time to shine

    2011-04-20T10:00:00Z

    You could say here we go again and you would be right.

  • Scales
    News

    A balancing act

    2011-03-16T10:00:00Z

    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.