This article was published in the October 2010 issue of World Port Development. To receive a pdf of the article in its original format...

This article was published in the October 2010 issue of World Port Development. To receive a pdf of the article in its original format including charts and pictures please send an email to archive@worldportdevelopment.com

Dr Geraldine Knatz, Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles talks to Ray Dykes

Dr Knatz, you like to "stand in the splash zone"  . . .  how has this willingness to get down and involved helped you in your Port of Los Angeles leadership?

This article was published in the October 2010 issue of World Port Development. To receive a pdf of the article in its original format including charts and pictures please send an email to archive@worldportdevelopment.com

New Zealand Ports defy global recession

Someone forgot to tell those at the end of the line that there's a worldwide economic recession crippling trade. Ray Dykes reports ...

Judging by the fiscal year results of New Zealand's two largest and busiest ports – the Port of Tauranga and Ports of Auckland – the global meltdown has been comparatively kind so far. Tauranga, as New Zealand's largest and most diversified port, shipped 13.7 million tonnes in the year ending June 30, 2010 and that was up nearly 2.5% in what the port described as "a very turbulent environment." Operating profit jumped to NZ$49.4 million and that was up 9.3% on the previous fiscal year, while after tax profit reached NZ$ 38.02 million.

This article was published in the October 2010 issue of World Port Development. To receive a pdf of the article in its original format including charts and pictures please send an email to archive@worldportdevelopment.com

Container Crane Recycling: Upgrade and Relocation

With the slowing economy and rising prices of new cranes, renovating existing container handling cranes and bulk handling cranes deserves serious consideration. Anna Dix at Liftech presented an alternative at the Ports 2010 conference.Most maritime shipping companies were operating profitably through the summer of 2008 until the "perfect storm" of the credit crisis and the worldwide recession struck, leading to a major drop in world trade.

This article was published in September 2010 issue of World Port Development. To receive a pdf of the article in its original format including...

This article was published in September 2010 issue of World Port Development. To receive a pdf of the article in its original format including charts and pictures please send an email to archive@worldportdevelopment.com

Incredible India

The recent collision between a bulk carrier and a container ship in Mumbai port seems to have grabbed all the attention, but there is a lot more newsworthy developments happening in the port sector in India. World Port Development brings you a quick round up on what is happening where.

This article was published in September 2010 issue of World Port Development. To receive a pdf of the article in its original format including...

This article was published in September  2010 issue of World Port Development. To receive a pdf of the article in its original format including charts and pictures please send an email to archive@worldportdevelopment.com

Barge handling systems tackle new frontier

The huge waterways of Europe and North America are familiar territory for the world's leading makers of barge loading and unloading systems as Ray Dykes discovers...

The highly developed inland waterways of Europe, for example, offer a 37,000km network connecting cities in a congestion-free, less polluting system that requires far less energy per tonne carried than rail or road.  Over 50% of the sea tonnage from Antwerp in Belgium and Rotterdam in Holland is carried inland by barge.

This article was published in July/August 2010 issue of World Port Development. To receive a pdf of the article in its original format including charts and pictures please send an email to archive@worldportdevelopment.com

Global port development – the importance of good design

Ports are of particular importance to the global economy: they connect world markets. Cargo throughput at ports around the world has experienced double digit growth rates in the past few years and the first signs that the economic crisis is behind us is now being recorded. Dr Wolfram Tauer, Vice Chairman at INROS LACKNER AG, Germany highlights the vital role played by consulting firms in the evolving ports industry.

This article was published in July/August 2010 issue of World Port Development. To receive a pdf of the article in its original format including charts and pictures please send an email to archive@worldportdevelopment.com

Terminal Operating Systems - A Different View

Andre D' Cruz, Deputy CEO/Director, Privasia, Malaysia, comments on last month's TOS article and offers a new perspective on the requirements of a TOS in modern day ports.

Just imagine the following scenario: You are part of the management team of the operations IT division of a port. Your yard planners have put in a memo to you for a different set of features that they require from the software they currently use to suit their new yard SOP that had to be implemented due to port growth.