Bulgaria Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Still mired in recession and fiscal austerity, Bulgaria does not have vast funds to invest in its ports and shipping infrastructure. As such, the government's new policy is to offer more concessions to the private sector to run facilities. ... |
June 2010 | $ 530 |
Russia Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Report SummeryBMI's believes that shipping companies will seek expansion opportunities in niche markets that offer growth prospects and little competition. One example is that Russia's Far Eastern Shipping Company (... |
July 2010 | $ 530 |
Ukraine Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Report SummeryIn late May we noted that the Ukrainian recovery had begun to make itself felt in the country's port and shipping sector. Ukraine's main container ports, Odessa and Illichivsk, reported increases on 20... |
July 2010 | $ 530 |
Latvia Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Report SummeryIn May the Latvian port of Liepaja was said to be planning to increase its total cargo throughput by 50% in five years - a task that BMI believes will be Herculean in the current trade environment. We note, ho... |
July 2010 | $ 530 |
Peru Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Report SummeryIn Q210 Peru's maritime sector bore the brunt of further tension between the Peruvian national port authority, the Empresa Nacional de Puertas SA (ENAPU), and workers at the country's largest port, Cal... |
July 2010 | $ 530 |
Taiwan Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Report SummeryOne of Taiwan's top shipping lines, Evergreen Marine, has cemented its contrarian reputation by announcing a massive expansion programme that will include the purchase of 100 new vessels. A total of 32 8,0... |
July 2010 | $ 530 |
Saudi Arabia Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Report SummeryQ110 results for the Saudi port sector indicate that BMI's predictions of a beginning of a recovery in the sector were correct. Using the country's two bellwether ports as examples, we note that a reco... |
July 2010 | $ 530 |
Chile Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International According to reports in April, normal service was near to resuming across Chile's port sector after February's hurricane, with the country reportedly functioning at more than 90% of its full export capacity. There was some confusion, however, surroundin |
June 2010 | $ 530 |
Israel Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Israel's port sector appears to be on the road to recovery, with the country's main port, Haifa, posting a rise in tonnage throughput in Q110 of 15% year-on-year (y-o-y). Container volumes at the port increased by 14% y-o-y. We expect the recovery trend |
June 2010 | $ 530 |
Croatia Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International The Chinese are interested in the Adriatic. There have been talks recently between representatives of the Beijing government and Croatia on the possibility of major investments in a series of big projects, across shipping, airports, tourism and the timb |
June 2010 | $ 530 |
Hong Kong Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Things are - slowly - getting better in the box business. At the end of March Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), the world's largest container terminal operator, which has its headquarters in Hong Kong, said its earnings before interest and taxes fell by 7. |
June 2010 | $ 530 |
Romania Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Various potentially competing schemes are being put together to transport Caspian Sea natural gas to Europe. The latest may well offer a significant boost to the Romanian shipping industry. The new proposal is called AGRI (Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Int |
June 2010 | $ 530 |
Indonesia Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International A combination of good economic growth and favourable regulatory changes could give the Indonesianshipping and ports sector a bit of a kick-start this year. Indonesian ship imports zoomed up in the firstfour months of 2010, rising ... |
June 2010 | $ 530 |
Estonia Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Estonian port officials have to manage a mixture of collaboration and competition with their Russianneighbours. The Estonian port of Sillamse (Silport), for example, which is itself part-owned by Russianinvestors, will launch its ... |
June 2010 | $ 530 |
Greece Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Greece's much-publicised fiscal and debt problems, which have prompted European Union intervention tosave it from default, are definitely a dark cloud for the country's ports and shipping sector. Yetparadoxical as it may seem, the... |
June 2010 | $ 530 |
Pakistan Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Pakistan's state-owned shipping line, the Pakistani National Shipping Corporation (PNSC), has seen an opportunity in the still-depressed global shipping market. At the beginning of May it said it intended to buy a further five cargo ships a... |
May 2010 | $ 530 |
Australia Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International According to reports in February, Dubai Ports World (DP World)'s grip on the Australian container shipping market could be loosened as ports moved towards implementing competition reforms aimed at improving efficiency and lowering trade cos... |
May 2010 | $ 530 |
Malaysia Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International Although Malaysia's shipping and ports sector is on a recovery path, there are still some difficulties along the way. The staff of bulk shipping line Malaysian Merchant Marine Bhd (MMM) in March accepted voluntary redundancy after the compa... |
May 2010 | $ 530 |
China Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International An intriguing sign of the times for China's ports and shipping sector emerged in March, when Shanghai and Ningbo-Zhoushan, the two largest ports in the country, which are traditionally seen as bitter rivals, announced they were setting up a... |
May 2010 | $ 530 |
Brazil Shipping Report Q3 2010By Business Monitor International As the global economy continues on a path of moderate recovery in 2010, the outlook for Brazil's shipping and ports sector remains broadly positive. One sign of this is the encouraging trend of Brazilian commodity exports. To give an exampl... |
May 2010 | $ 530 |
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