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Rotterdam’s Terminals: Fierce Competitors

Posted on May 20, 2015 by | Leave a comment

The competition was visible when I visited in 2013.  And it is even more intense now.  Thanks to Ana Casaca for sharing the link.

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Drewry: Rotterdam’s Terminals to Become Fierce Competitors | World Maritime News.

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Landside operations: next frontier for container-shipping

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Chris Clott and I have been saying this for several years now. It is nice to see it in a consulting firm’s thinking, as this McKinsey article shows. There are a lot of interesting statistics in the piece, especially the third figure, showing that integration goes with moneymaking.

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Landside operations: The next frontier for container-shipping alliances | McKinsey & Company.

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Supersizing the Port of Long Beach

Posted on May 16, 2015 by | 1 comment

A great article on John Slangerup, the new head of the Port of Long Beach, CA, and the efforts to fit the port in better with supply chain realities.  An important feature: his outreach effort across the country to let people know the port will address supply chain issues for the end user of the cargoes.  That’s a big step forward, and it’s needed at all our ports.

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Supersizing the Port of Long Beach: Big plans to streamline logistics, grow capacity, and switch to ‘green’ power – The Orange County Register.

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