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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The development plan for Hong Kong Port, released December 2014, makes interesting reading for port planners and developers.
PortEconomics co-director Peter de Langen, provides compliments to all stakeholders involved in the preparation of the plan, and provides commentary on its content.
Peter's viewpoint is available via his column...
Various potential mergers between neighbouring port authorities have recently been in the news and the experiences of the newly-paired ports have in virtually all cases been positive.
Peter de Langen, co-director of PortEconomics, discusses the issue in his viewpoint - published in his Port Strategy.
The 'Analyst' discusses the various...