Post Script – Page 8

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    To invest or...?

    2009-04-04T12:24:00Z

    To invest or not to invest? Answer, first do your homework well, constantly monitor the market, appraise the competition and if you decide to go for it then seek the maximum return from every dollar spent.

  • Port Strategy: The Suez Canal is hard hit by service diversions
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    PS PAGE

    2009-02-18T12:24:00Z

    The world''s big canals - the Suez and Panama canals - are increasingly getting the attention of the world''s shipping interests.

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    2008-12-31T12:24:00Z

    As 2008 draws a close, it''s time for a little reflection on what this year has brought us. But will we learn from the lessons, or will our memories revert to the norm of burying bad news?

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    PS Opinion Piece

    2008-12-24T12:24:00Z

    I saw a summary the other day of the container line service cutbacks that had taken place in the Far East-North Europe, Far East-Mediterranean, Far East-USEC and Transatlantic trades. In the Far East-North Europe trade there were seven major cutbacks, in the Far East Mediterranean eight, Far East/USEC two and ...

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    Missing the X factor

    2008-11-07T12:24:00Z

    There are new quay cranes being installed on the quayside in Cape Town and other major investments underway designed to realise a comprehensive upgrade of the container terminal, but does this really spell a better future ahead for port users?

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    2008-09-10T12:24:00Z

    Russia''s recent advance into Georgia belies the profile of a country that does not yet fully respect democratic principles and which is steered by powerful individuals that have their own agenda in terms of the direction that Russia will pursue politically, economically and in the commercial world. Practically speaking, there ...

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    Congestion bites

    2008-07-30T21:26:00Z

    "Congestion" - is it our imagination or is it the case that we don''t hear so much about this problem nowadays? If this is the case then it clearly isn''t a result of the problem going away but rather that it has become an accepted part of commercial life.

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    2008-07-02T21:26:00Z

    The contrast between achieving market reach in mature and emerging economies has perhaps never been greater. In northern Europe, for example, the battle is one of delivering enough capacity and removing the landside bottlenecks that can slow road and rail traffic especially at peak times.

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    PS Opinion piece

    2008-06-24T21:26:00Z

    This is the 50th issue of Port Strategy and as there isn''t room here to list an "anything-to-do-with-50" ranking, I thought I would list my likes and dislikes of the port business until space runs out.

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    2008-05-28T21:26:00Z

    International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) is a company that has a reputation for introducing modern container handling expertise into nations that have previously been bereft of this asset and the latest chapter regarding its efforts in this respect has been steadily unfolding in the Syrian port of Tartous.

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    2008-04-23T21:26:00Z

    The time for the establishment of "independent port regulators" is, in our view, most definitely upon us. With the promise of objective rulings on port tariffs, handling charges and other key aspects of the price/service equation, port authorities that find it difficult to let go will be restrained.

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    PS OPINION PAGE

    2008-03-13T21:26:00Z

    Greece is at last moving down the path of port privatisation with the partial concessioning of container terminal capacity in Piraeus and the full concessioning of container terminal facilities in Thessaloniki. But is it a fair privatisation process and will it deliver a good result?

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    PS OPINION PIECE

    2008-03-03T21:26:00Z

    The global credit crunch may be in play and this may be adding percentage points to the borrowing of port businesses, but this does not mean that the interest of what can be termed new generation investors - private equity concerns and infrastructure funds - in the port sector is ...

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    PS Opinion Piece

    2008-02-20T16:33:00Z

    It is probably not politically correct to say that it was with some amusement that the announcement was noted that parties in the UK endeavouring to carry off beached timber from the stricken Ice Princess would have the full force of the law come down on them.

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    Forth Ports, going, going gone?

    2008-02-11T16:33:00Z

    Is the last major listed port group in the UK, Forth Ports, about to be acquired by Babcock & Brown, the same Australian-based infrastructure fund that recently acquired the PD Ports Group? Answer, yes in our view, that is if Forth Ports, the group in question, isn't snatched at the ...

  • Port Strategy: surge in orders for 10,000 teu+ vessels raises some key issues
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    Liner insight

    2007-12-19T16:33:00Z

    Just published by Dynamar B.V. is its Top 25 Container Liner Operators/Trading Profiles publication which is a must buy study for any organisation interested in these 25 entities who collectively move 80% of the world''s global container trade.

  • Port Strategy: Pure, very large transhipment hubs could become more common in the future
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    2007-11-07T16:59:00Z

    The world of transhipment and feedering has proved to be one of the growth pillars of the container industry over the last decade and nowhere is it better analysed than in a new report from Dynamar entitled Transhipment & Feedering, Trades, Operators, Ships.

  • Careless handling:woe betide the bidder that uses a courier rather than hand delivery for his bid in Dakar
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    Dakar dealings

    2007-07-01T16:26:00Z

    Back in the May issue of PS you may recall that there appeared to be some strange things going on with the concessioning of the Dakar container terminal in Senegal. Remember one of the qualifying technical criteria for parties to qualify to submit an Expression of Interest was to handle ...

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    Show your hand

    2007-05-01T16:26:00Z

    The Port of Dakar, Senegal is reportedly in the process of privatising its container terminal facilities – or is it? 

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    Capacity drain

    2007-04-01T16:26:00Z

    It is an interesting phenomenon of the 21st Century that the international container handling market has seen available containerport capacity dry up in so-called mature markets. It happened on the US West Coast and the UK in 2004, and arguably it is happening again now in northern Europe.