Post Script – Page 7

  • Scales
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    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.

  • Cameroon will use China's loan to fund deep sea port expansion
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    The China effect

    2011-02-10T15:59:00Z

    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.

  • Line up for the Lunatic Express
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    All aboard

    2011-01-05T10:00:00Z

    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

    2010-11-24T10:00:00Z

    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.

  • Bell ringing
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    Ringing the changes

    2010-10-20T10:00:00Z

    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.

  • Postscript
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    Changing the guards

    2010-09-22T10:00:00Z

    The order of things is changing in Mediterranean container transhipment operations.

  • Postscript
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    Opening the box

    2010-07-28T10:00:00Z

    Dynamar has chosen an interesting time for the release of a new report entitled, Container Throughput & Terminal Capacity in Europe.

  • Port Strategy:Is a return to the so-called 'good ole days' really helpful?
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    A much needed correction

    2010-06-09T10:00:00Z

    Are the good old days back or were the good old days really the bad old days?

  • Port Strategy: South Africa's ports stand alone in Sub-Saharan Africa with an efficient interfacing road and rail infrastructure
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    Africa explored

    2010-05-12T10:00:00Z

    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.

  • Double edged
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    Back from the brink?

    2010-04-28T10:00:00Z

    Is it a double edged sword allowing market forces not to prevail?

  • Port Strategy: How stupid can you get? Credit: Gilles DeCruyenaere
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    Dumb and dumber

    2010-03-10T10:00:00Z

    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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    Smoke and Mirrors

    2010-02-18T16:40:00Z

    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?

  • Road to recovery?
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    PS PAGE

    2010-01-06T12:24:00Z

    Light at the end of the tunnel or just a train coming the other way?

  • News

    PS PAGE

    2009-11-18T12:24:00Z

    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

    2009-10-28T12:24:00Z

    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.

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    Money matters

    2009-09-02T12:24:00Z

    The ports sector has over the past few years been the scene of some significant innovation regarding the deployment of finance for acquisitions, capital expenditure and even debt finance.

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    Labour bends

    2009-08-05T12:24:00Z

    The attitude of dock labour in Spain is changing. There is a reality dawning that new competitive pressures - of the type being fielded from Morocco''s Tangier Med container transhipment terminals - require a competitive response.

  • News

    PS PAGE

    2009-07-01T12:24:00Z

    When will the fall off in trade, slow, stop and then start to recover - whatever market sector your in this is the big issue that everyone is thinking about. So do we see green shoots yet in the container sector?

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    PORT STRATEGIST

    2009-06-24T12:24:00Z

    If you live in the UK then you would have ''enjoyed'' a feast of controversy on the political scene of late as the expenses of Members of Parliament were unveiled for the first time in the media.

  • News

    PS PAGE

    2009-05-19T12:24:00Z

    Reform of port labour arrangements, and especially that thorny task of downsizing, is invariably something that is the focus of considerable controversy.