Port Strategy – Page 5 – PortEconomics

Posts tagged with "Port Strategy"

Tapping into growth potential

COMMENT: A quick way to get an understanding of the development potential of the ports industry in a country is to look at the throughput per capita, writes Peter de Langen. Eurostat publishes such data and the ‘usual suspects’ score highly. The Netherlands handles about 33 tons per year per capita and Belgium about 20, compared...

Containers

The Analyst: starting on the right footing

COMMENT: Last year was a year of differing fortunes for Belgium seaports, writes Peter de Langen. Volumes in Zeebrugge dropped by over 20%, from more than 2m teu to slightly over 1.5m teu, and PSA decided to close down its container terminal in the port. Meanwhile, volumes in Antwerp grew. Antwerp grew with roughly the amount of...

Featured

The Analyst: integration key to development

By Peter de Langen COMMENT: In many countries, port development and the development of, often adjacent, sites for industrial activities is traditionally done by different, state-owned entities, writes Peter de Langen. This is the case in South Africa, where one organisation is responsible for Coega port and another is...

Featured

The Analyst: the port value calculation

Like other sectors of the global industry, ports are keen to point out their national economic impact, writes Peter de Langen at his column "The Analyst" in Port Strategy. However, there is no internationally established approach to calculating this impact. A recent report for the US ports industry is striking: it claims that the...

The Analyst: under one roof

APM Terminals has announced that it will invest more than $2bn in a new port in Nigeria, its largest single investment in a port ever. Peter de Langen through his column "The Analyst" in Port Strategy comments: "What sets this investment apart from others it has made is that APMT will develop both the container terminal and other...

The Analyst: vying for attention

There's certainly been a lot of chatter around New York about infrastructure and about the local port authority, but most of the press, traditional media and online coverage has not been about maritime things. The biggest headlines have been garnered by plans for a new $4bn revamp of the 1960s vintage LaGuardia Airport (which, sensibly,...

Viewpoints

Growing up fast: brazilian ports

With a local market containing 196.7m consumers, a total area of 8.5 million km2 and the seventh largest economy in the world in terms of GDP, Brazil naturally attracts attention from investors from all sectors that are interested in the opportunities in this emerging country. Recently, it's the country's 8,500 km coastline and its...

Featured

The Analyst: forward plan to manage transitions

In Antwerp, the closure of the GM plant makes a huge site available for re-development, while in Rotterdam, one of the refineries (currently owned by Q8) is up for sale, writes Peter de Langen, co-director of PortEconomics in his viewpoint- published in his Port Strategy column as 'The Analyst'. For the latter, one scenario is a buyer...

Containers

The Analyst: belief in canadian container prospects

Last month, DP World bought the Maher terminal in Prince Rupert, with a 2014 throughput of a little over 600,000 teu for more than a half billion US dollar - just under $1,000 per teu handled, comments Peter de Langen at his "The Analyst" column in Port Strategy. Two aspects of this deal are interesting. First, the price seems to...

Featured

The Analyst: pricing of transhipment by port authorities

The variety of pricing structures is remarkable. For instance, a substantial amount of charges are paid by shippers in South Africa, contrary to most other countries. In Singapore, virtually all revenues come from port dues and virtually none from land rents in ports or charges to shippers. The opposite is true in many US and Canadian...

Page 5 of 7...3 456 7 ...