Post Script – Page 6
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NewsThe regulator
It is now just over five years since South Africa’s Regulator – one of the world’s few independent port regulators – first convened.
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Legacy or lunacy?
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?
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Lethal cocktail
Congestion is back in the East African ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam and to informed observers this comes as no surprise.
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Bad times cometh
Ask any container shipping line about its New Year’s resolution and it has to be finding the path to stem financial losses.
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Hostile climate
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.
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Deal certainty
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.
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Cyber-style UK domination
Felicity Landon reports on a bit of a Doctor Who moment on the quayside at Felixstowe.
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Benefits born out of adversity
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.
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The 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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An 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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An Indian first
International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has entered the burgeoning Indian container market in an innovative way.
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A 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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A 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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The 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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All 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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Ringing 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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Changing the guards
The order of things is changing in Mediterranean container transhipment operations.
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Opening the box
Dynamar has chosen an interesting time for the release of a new report entitled, Container Throughput & Terminal Capacity in Europe.
