Technical Papers Port focus

• US port-related infrastructure investments reap dividends

  Edition 53 - Port Focus, Port focus

  By raising the priority of seaports and their connecting infrastructure, America can achieve modern, navigable ports with efficient intermodal connections, while creating greater trade and job opportunities for both today and the future.

• The Panama Canal expansion and its impact on world trade

  Edition 53 - Port Focus, Port focus

  The Panama Canal expansion is a project of global importance, designed to maintain the waterway’s competitiveness and enhance the value of the Panama route. After years of analysis and hundreds of studies performed by the ACP, the people of Panama decided that it was in the best interest of the nation to engage in a project that would not only guarantee the sustainability of its main asset, but that would also be an economic engine capable of offering a myriad of opportunities for generations to come.

• Ports and overweight containers

  Edition 53 - Port Focus, Port focus

  The issue of overweight containers, or incorrectly declared containers, has been one of the most critical safety issues for the port industry, as well as for the shipping industry. Recognizing that each mode of transport in the international supply chain is exposed to serious risks because of overweight containers, IAPH adopted its ‘Resolution on the Safety of Containers in the Supply Chain’ at its Busan Conference in May 2011.

• Port regionalization: improving port competitiveness by reaching beyond the port perimeter

  Edition 52 - Port Focus, Port focus

  Port regionalization, through the setting of an inland network of load centers, is a strategy that has been used to massify hinterland transportation and correspondingly improve port competitiveness; hinterland-based regionalization.

• Challenges to and challengers of the Suez Canal

  Edition 51 - Port Focus, Port focus

  The Suez Canal plays a pivotal role in today’s global container shipping network, in particularly in accommodating vessels sailing on the important Asia-Europe trade lane.

• The Panama Canal expansion: business as usual or game-changer?

  Edition 51 - Port Focus, Port focus

  In 2014 the Panama Canal will celebrate its centennial, an event that will not just simply be factual, but will also correspond to a new phase in its operations, if everything goes according to plan.

• Berth productivity will have to keep up with shipping’s super-sized revolution

  Edition 50 - Port Focus, Port focus

  Think of a container ship as long as the Empire State building and as wide as an eight-lane motorway that is able to carry more than 860 million bananas or 18 million flat-screen televisions in 18,000 containers. That will be the world’s largest vessel – the ‘Triple-E’ – the sheer scale and capacity of which will revolutionize international container shipping. Maersk Line, the world’s largest container line, signed a contract in February to buy 10 Triple-E vessels, with an option for 20 more, from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering of South Korea in a deal that could be worth US$5.7 billion. The ships will be delivered from 2013 to 2015 and will have 16% more capacity than Emma Maersk, the world’s largest vessel currently in operation. Moreover, 50% less carbon dioxide (CO2) will be emitted per container moved compared to the industry average on the Asia-Europe trade.

• Dry ports and the maritime hinterland: gaining momentum

  Edition 50 - Port Focus, Port focus

  The evolution of inland freight distribution can be seen as an ongoing development of containerization and intermodal transportation. Modal availability, capacity and reliability of regional inland access all have an important role to play in shaping this development. As maritime shipping networks and port terminal activities become better integrated, the focus shifted on inland transportation and the inland terminal as a fundamental component of this strategy. Thus, after a phase that relied on the development of port terminals and maritime shipping networks, the integration of maritime and inland freight distribution systems has favored the setting of what has often been labeled ‘dry ports’.

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  Foresight and future-proofing: How to attract the world’s biggest shipping line

  Edition 48 - Port Focus, Port focus

  Maersk Line is the liner shipping arm of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group, and is the world’s leading shipping company. The Maersk Line fleet comprises of 500 vessels while the total container fleet totals over 3,200,000 TEU. Maersk Line is, of course, a customer that any ambitious Port Authority or terminal operator would love to have calling at their facility – so who better to tell us about the key factors that influence their terminal selection process than the Line itself?

• New pulp and paper terminal for Port of Tarragona

  Edition 47 - Port Focus, Port focus

  EUROPORTS Iberica (previously TPS Tarragona Port Services) is a company that has operated in the Port of Tarragona for more than 40 years.

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