ViewPoint – Page 11
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ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD
That salty old scribe Mike Grey wrote in Lloyd''s List recently of the dangers of buying into the notion that pilots could be replaced by ''sea traffic controllers'' based in the VTS tower. He rightly questioned in that sardonic, slightly ranting but lucid way of his: " How can anyone, ...
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GOVERNMENT MUST GET IT RIGHT
No one wants government to have too strong an influence over a privatised port environment but some sort of architecture in which coordinated development can take place is essential. The international port industry knows from well-documented experiences such as excessive capacity being introduced in Buenos Aires, Argentina, just what the ...
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SEEING THE BIGGER PICTURE
The diversity of activity surrounding a port never ceases to impress. It''s a microcosm of trade and logistics, labour relations, security issues, IT, investment in equipment and infrastructure, insurance, the law, marketing, profits - and the environment.
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EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
Terrorist attack, human error, the weather - whatever the cause, oil pollution is a messy business. Last month, seven and a half years after the SEA EMPRESS grounded in Milford Haven''s approaches spilling 72,000 tonnes of crude into the sea and onto the shore, the port authority finally settled the ...
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MARRYING THE NEW TO THE OLD
Thirty-odd years ago a little single-decker called the HELMSDALE traded from Orkney to Leith with barrels, butts and hogsheads for the Midlothian distilleries. The whisky cargo was just too much of a temptation for the stevedores. The gangs trouped on board armed with plastic buckets. " Watch and learn laddie, ...
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CAPACITY, CONNECTIONS, CONTROL AND THE CUSTOMER
Sometimes an item of news will, without us always knowing it, provide a glimpse into the future. It might also teach us a lesson or two.
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NORTH OR SOUTH - RESTRUCTURING BRINGS BOTH THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Does shipping line self-interest serve box terminal operations? There is a growing debate in port circles as to whether shipping lines can make effective common-user container terminal operators.
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THAT MAGIC WORD "MANAGEMENT"
''Management'' is the word that underpins portstrategy, the new magazine for your industry. portstrategy, or PS as we call it, is designed to meet the modern information needs of port and terminal management, as well as inform key port users of the main industry trend lines and developments.
