The Strategist – Page 8

  • Port Strategy: Get in early to smooth labour concerns pre-privatisation
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    PS Opinion piece to go in news from Mike

    2008-04-30T21:26:00Z

    It is interesting to note that the privatisation of the Port of Izmir, Turkey has been temporarily suspended after a legal challenge by a union that it is contrary to the public interest. The thought springs to mind as to why government hadn''t got this aspect covered before the launch ...

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    Time to take stock

    2007-12-12T16:33:00Z

    Only relatively few ports and terminal operating groups have looked to a stock market listing as a way of raising cash to expand, but why? Invariably those that do take this route receive a fair amount of media attention and so perhaps it seems that there are more takers than ...

  • Port Strategy: concession terms at Indian ports such as Chennai will improve
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    MM's opinion piece

    2007-10-31T16:59:00Z

    It is interesting to see that the Indian Government has decided to deploy a new tariff specification method for concessions offered in India's major ports.

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    The end of an era for cavalier port purchases

    2007-10-04T12:23:00Z

    The last two or three years have seen burgeoning interest in investing in new port infrastructure and as part of this a new generation of investors have emerged, including parties such as private equity concerns and infrastructure funds.

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    UK ports need realism, not optimism

    2007-09-01T17:45:00Z

    The UK Government delivered its port policy interim review document in mid- July and this raises a number of interesting issues. One in particular appears worthy of comment. The point is made that the UK ports sector is thriving and profitable. Following on from this, structural changes in port financing ...

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    Does size really matter in the terminal operating game?

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Interesting times in the US, sparked originally by DP World’ s forced sale of its US assets, the former P& O Ports US portfolio. 

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    The environmental issue: hot topic or here to stay?

    2007-05-01T16:26:00Z

    It used to be that we were inundated with newsworthy reports on security issues and the various programmes and schemes with interesting acronyms such as TWIC and CTPAT. The lesson there was that they all have a cost associated with them. Today, the port industry is embroiled in environmental issues, ...

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    Re-writing the concessioning small print

    2007-05-01T16:26:00Z

    It has become increasingly clear in the last two or three years that there is a growing requirement to consider in greater detail the aspect of exit arrangements from a terminal concession or a similar contract that gives management and operating rights to a specific party for a given port ...

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    Troubles and tussles on Spain's Mediterranean coast

    2007-04-01T16:26:00Z

    There are problems at the new Prat Dock container terminal under construction in Barcelona where Hutchison has secured terminal operating rights. Around 500m of the new quay line, that will eventually extend for 1,500m, has suffered a major structural problem putting into doubt the ability of the port authority to ...

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    Crippling implications of US initiative

    2007-01-01T16:26:00Z

    One of the more interesting announcements at the beginning of 2007 is that the opposition party in the US, the Democrats, are to fast track legislation which within three years aims to ban containers from entering the US unless they are scanned at source by US-installed equipment and fitted with ...

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    Spanish labour bottleneck needs urgent attention

    2006-11-01T18:27:00Z

    Labour has traditionally been a problem along the Spanish Mediterranean coastline and recent times have seen things getting worse.  

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    Buenos Aires - back to the bad ol' days

    2006-10-01T18:27:00Z

    Some people just won''t learn. Today, Buenos Aires stands on the edge of the concessioning precipice once again, having experienced problems with the concessioning of container terminals back in the 1990s.

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    Breaking box barriers

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    A new chapter in container operations has opened with the launch of the Emma Maersk, the first of a new series of vessels from Maersk with a nominal capacity of 11,000 teu but which is believed in industry circles to be closer to 13,000 teu or above.

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    No way to do business

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    It hits you right in the eye and begs that question - again - how can they do it?

  • The analysis offers to container terminal operators a measure of the operational difficulties they face
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    Reliability Rating

    2006-06-01T00:00:00Z

    A new study from Drewry rates liner shipping reliability and thereby provides an insight into the implications of this for others in the cargo chain. Mike Mundy explains