Latest Regional Analysis
Making the best of it
What a difference two years makes. Before 2008, China's ports had been moving from strength to strength, registering double-digit growth rates and planning a huge amount of new capacity to cope with rapidly increasing cargo levels.Read More | 01 Feb 2010
Le grand projet is launched
The 2008 Reform Law created the status of grand port maritime (GPM) to replace ports autonomes, introduced a new governance system and, of course, paved the way for the large scale transfer of crane drivers and maintenance crew from public port authorities to private stevedores.Read More | 01 Feb 2010
Some throughput results just in...
Container trade at Le Havre dropped 10% in 2009 to 2.2m teu, although the port authority maintains business has held up well, compared with others in the northern Europe range.Read More | 01 Feb 2010
