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NewsEnhancing sustainable supply chains in Africa
New commerce and tech innovation are the key create better supply chains and reach the region’s true trade potential says DP World.
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NewsFostering innovation
Startups can bring fresh thinking to sometimes staid port practises, explains Iain MacIntyre
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NewsICTSI looks after its employees housing
Employees of Manila International Container Terminal (MICT) are being looked after with the opportunity to win a house.
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NewsPreparing for the unexpected
COMMENT: Among US port professionals, the late summer of 2017 will be remembered not for the New York Yankees’ advancing to the baseball playoffs, but, rather for a series of hurricanes leading to both human suffering and business hardships, writes Barry Parker.
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NewsSubic’s revival
Growing port builds on its reputation as a viable alternative to congested Manila. Michael King reports
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NewsTaking charge
Dithering on privatisation is not distracting Canadian ports from building their business, says Martin Rushmere
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Tales of the unexpected
COMMENT: In May 2016 a lease agreement was signed between Feadship, a leading builder of mega-yachts, and Port of Amsterdam (PoA). Yet, Amsterdam’s vision document, officially launched a year earlier in June 2015 did not mention mega-yachts as a potentially relevant market segment, writes Peter de Langen.
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NewsICTSI banks on emerging markets
International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) is building up its emerging market portfolio by acquiring three new operations in Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.
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NewsContent conundrum
Questions still remain on who is responsible for container screening at ports and how it should be done. Alex Hughes reports
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NewsPoM – fiddling while Rome burns
Mike Mundy asks why Melbourne is dragging its heels on embracing larger ships
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NewsGrowth potential
COMMENT: Annual container trade capacity is up 8%, but there are fewer services calling at East and Southern Africa (ESAF) box ports. These are among the key findings from a new report from consultant Dynamar.
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The lemmings are back
COMMENT: The shipping industry is an interesting one; it is one of the least concentrated industries around with far too many players in virtually all sectors, writes Ben Hackett.
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NewsMaking waste work harder
Ecoslops’ Vincent Favier explains what ports can do to facilitate slops disposal
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NewsAddressing the market’s reach stacking needs
A German equipment supplier says it''s addressing a market need in container lifting by taking on the supply of a new range of reach trucks.
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NewsCantilevers can deliver
ABB’s Uno Bryfors explains why ports needn’t restrict themselves to RTGs when upgrading yard operations
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NewsDefying expectations
The little port that everyone thought couldn’t, has certainly done it. Dismissed as destined for disappointment when development started in earnest in 1975, Prince Rupert this month completed the second phase of its Fairview container terminal, with a capacity of 1.3m teu.
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NewsLA & Long Beach approve CAAP update
The governing boards of Los Angeles and Long Beach ports have approved the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update.
