Viewpoint 1-12 – Page 6
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NewsPatched into cyber risks
Since the rushed introduction of the International Ship and Port Facility Code back in 2004, ports have had a dogged focus on security of their facilities. Miles of perimeter fencing has been erected, tens of thousands of security plans have been put in place and countless port security officers have ...
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NewsNo guarantees on post-expansion traffic
The sense of excitement on the US East Coast around the seemingly limitless benefits of the expansion of the Panama Canal is palpable. Ports from Miami to Boston are riding the post-expansion train, and dishing out a great deal of hyperbole as to why they will get the diverted West ...
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NewsThe print run on port demand
At various points this year you may have glimpsed a headline, or overhead a conversation in a bar about 3d printing that momentarily piqued your interest, but by the time you got home you’d forgotten all about following up to find out more.
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NewsChange afoot
The ‘big four’ still dominate the annual container terminal operator rankings, but could they be living on borrowed time?
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NewsVisual stimulation
On a bleary and dank June morning in Rotterdam, taking a coach trip to the game-changing Maasvlakte II development seemed to be a good use of time.
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NewsDog with a port autonomy bone
Never let it be said that the European Commission gives up on a fight: liberalisation proposals for ports in the trading bloc have resurfaced once again, undaunted by the backlashes to the previous incarnations in 2003 and 2006.
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NewsCurtain call for Hong Kong drama
There is a coups de théâtre being played out in Hong Kong. Hutchison’s Hongkong International Terminal has been an unwilling extra in a performance put on by its contracted dockers, who are now in their fifth week of strikes.
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NewsShrinking pool of port talent
Successive years of hammering home the crewing ‘crisis’ message have firmly ingrained the matter on our minds: red alert, a dearth of qualified seafarers is about to bring the industry to its knees. However, that record has been re-played for at least the last two decades and the anticipated crisis ...
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NewsSurvival of the fittest
It’s started. It was inevitable that the longer this financial blip continued the more chance there was of seeing business buyouts in the ports sector. And we can thank equipment companies for the start of what may well be a domino effect for the rest of the industry.
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NewsTunnel vision for another year
We’ve welcomed in a new year, but as an industry we are facing the same set of problems; even a seasoned optimist like me is struggling to see any positives any time soon.
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NewsBest laid plans
Have long-winded and overly bureaucratic planning processes taken another victim in the maturing UK port industry? Fears are that a setback in Hutchison Port Holdings’ already lengthy Bathside Bay plans might send the international operator packing.
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NewsPressing the button on remote control
As Navis’ Bill Walsh proudly proclaimed at Navis World last month, we are at automation two point zero. Announcements for Europe''s first automated STS crane orders certainly back him up, but how long has it taken us to get here?
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NewsTracking trials
There is much fodder for this month’s viewpoint, with strikes hanging over the usually labour-stable US East coast and DP World’s departure from its Aden ambitions.
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NewsGetting hit from both sides
US east coast ports faced two very different threats this month: one the fault of Mother Nature and the other entirely manmade as Hurricane Isaac and longshoremen unions both knocked on port doors.
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Moving target
The tales of two recent labour struggles underline continuing fraught relations between port operators and workers in all parts of the world.
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NewsChange of tack
APM Terminals has boldly put its money where its mouth is in its commitment to North America and put in an unsolicited bid to take over operations at Virginia Port Authority’s terminals.
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NewsShaking up the status quo down-under
Melbourne finally has its sights set on the prize with Port minister Denis Napthine giving the port''s long-awaited third container terminal the official go-ahead.
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NewsGo fish and keep good staff on the hook
We are bombarded on a daily basis with spiralling unemployment figures. So dire is the job market in many countries that you would be forgiven for thinking that employees would put up with anything just to keep what they have.
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NewsNo easy win for Tauranga
The labour situation in New Zealand has gone from bad to worse: discontented port workers were about to enter their fourth month of strikes at Ports of Auckland as this issue went to press.
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NewsAt your inconvenience
The International Transport Workers’ Federation’s threat to unceremoniously brand the Ports of Auckland as its first Port of Convenience sets a worrying precedent.
