All Transshipment articles
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NewsContinued Hub Expansion
With a strategic location at the crossroads of global trade routes, ports across the Middle East play a critical role in facilitating trade movement between key markets in the east and the west. AJ Keyes tracks recent activities and assesses the impact of future expansion
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NewsSouth Africa: Transshipment realities
Mike Mundy delves into the case for transshipment in South Africa under current operating realities – it is not as straightforward as has been suggested
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NewsBrave new world
Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) have both announced new operating plans for 2025. AJ Keyes looks at their aims and asks whether Gemini is taking the industry down a blind alley, or will it actually generate super-hubs? Or is MSC’s choice a better one?
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NewsDe-risking port logistics
Ian McRobbie, Programme Manager for Ports and Maritime Infrastructure at BMT*, drawing on extensive project experience highlights the merits of optimising bulk transshipment through ‘Climate-Smart’ simulation technology
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NewsSri Lanka struggles
Good and bad news for Sri Lanka’s leading container port, Colombo. The facility ended the first half of 2024 with a 9.6% increase in transshipment cargo, due to double digit growth for the January to end of April period.
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NewsUpping the transshipment stakes
Southeast Asia is a crucial region supporting container transshipment activity. But is it in danger of overdeveloping and generating too much capacity? A J Keyes assesses the position
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NewsMSC and Wilson, Sons link
MSC is reportedly keen to buy a majority shareholding in Wilson, Sons, the Brazilian based diversified shipping, terminal operating and logistics company.
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NewsTransshipment crucial
German ports have battled through a difficult period but continue to maintain a surprisingly strong presence in the transshipment theatre of operations. A J Keyes reviews recent performance.
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NewsTRANSSHIPMENT – EVOLVES
Transshipment is evolving as a tool via which to serve peripheral markets. Experience in the Indian Ocean confirms this and the ongoing requirement for port investment, as Andrew Penfold explains
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NewsROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES
South Korea’s ports have been hit with a trucking strike, lockdowns in their largest trading partner market of China and the COVID-19 pandemic. AJ Keyes assesses the impact and what lies ahead
