Post Script – Page 6
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NewsDurres debacle
Effectively loading the result of an open tender is never a good path to realising a positive outcome for a container terminal concession, especially when the concession is awarded to a company that is a non-port operating company.
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NewsA touch of spice down under
The Port of Melbourne Corp has published the names of the four parties short-listed for “the right to operate the third international container terminal at the Port of Melbourne".
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NewsIn ascendancy
Tanzania has laid down its claim for a future large slice of regional trade through a deal with China to build the new port of Bagamoyo in its Mbegani area, north west of Dar es Salaam, at a total cost of $10bn.
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NewsSecond helpings on terminal concessions
Name a port that won’t eventually go for a second container terminal operator. You might think Port of Singapore but you would be wrong: included within PSA''s operating arrangements are certain dedicated container terminals for shipping lines.
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NewsMombasa musings
Late last year saw President Kibaki preside over the ground breaking ceremony for the Port of Mombasa’s second container terminal. While the event marked progress, it is very slow progress indeed.
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NewsCall for common sense
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.
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NewsFailing to succeed
Have you ever been responsible for any noteworthy failures in your business career? No, me neither, but apparently it happens.
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NewsMediterranean musings
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.
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NewsDPW's Aden arrangement ends in divorce
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.
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NewsThe transhipment race
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.
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NewsFact or fiction
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?
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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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NewsLegacy 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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NewsLethal 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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NewsBad 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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NewsHostile 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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NewsDeal 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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NewsCyber-style UK domination
Felicity Landon reports on a bit of a Doctor Who moment on the quayside at Felixstowe.
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NewsBenefits 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.
