Infrastructure

Seaports Congestion and Cargo Movements By Kathy A. Smith Port productivity and congestion are major areas of concern throughout the shipping industry that can be influenced by a variety of factors. And although ports face the ever-changing dynamics of balancing today’s capital expenditures against possible future profits, how ports approach the issues at play depends on their unique set of ...

Latin America’s Proactive Approach Inventive Ideas Increase Non-Container Productivity By Tom Hranac In a region traditionally dependent on exporting commodities, depressed commodity prices, a stronger dollar and weaker global demand have caused an economic downturn in many parts of Latin America. Although it is not surprising that the region’s ports may have difficulties maintaining their non-containerized cargoes in these conditions, ...

Cruise Port Productivity: Upgrading Infrastructure for a Growing Industry By Steve Cutler The cruise industry is growing rapidly, adding new excursions with increasing frequency, building new ships with designs that make some terminals’ existing infrastructure obsolete, and launching mega-ships with incredible capacity. The challenge for cruise ports to become increasingly productive in order to capture their share of the expanding market ...

Port to Market: Building Infrastructure to Meet Demand By Jim Romeo Before the Port of San Diego drafts its master plan, it will have spent three years analyzing and investigating data from multiple sources. This includes public outreach, over 100 interviews with stakeholders and agencies and numerous public workshops and board meetings that culminated at the end of 2015. Its ...

Seaports Maintenance and Modernization By Kathy A. Smith The role that maintenance and upgrades play at ports is naturally critical to keeping assets running well and cargo moving as efficiently as possible. Ports are challenged to prioritize their limited resources between major capital investments required for bigger ships, versus the cyclical major upgrades of wharves and other facilities. And although ...

By Kathy A. Smith Continuous infrastructure improvements are critical to a port’s success in today’s marketplace. Ports are facing possible diminished profits as they continue to prepare for larger ships while shipping lines are consolidating partnerships, making ports compete even more to handle larger capacities of cargo and cruise passengers. But that hasn’t stopped the flow of capital improvement projects. ...

By Meredith Martino G6. P3. The shorthand names for some of today’s shipping line industry alliances might sound like Bingo calls or Battleship moves, but vessel sharing agreements are no game for the port industry – though they may end up setting some ports up for major wins when it comes to vessel calls and business agreements. Ports throughout the ...

America’s ports are looking to turn the tide of the down economy by investing – on their own, using government funding and through public-private partnerships – in infrastructure that could lead to renewed prospects and prosperity By William E. Thompson Since the onset of the economic crisis a few years ago, the World Economic Forum has tracked the erosion of ...