Crane of thrones: CMA CGM + Westports or Hapag + Eurokai?
Ports are getting noisy
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The logic behind port mergers is more obvious in some cases than others. Of course the universal that connects the varying rationales is geography – whether that is about the ability of two ports to more efficiently serve a deeper hinterland together than either is able to independently, or a response to demographic developments, such as the emergence (or should that be mergence) of a nearby megacity which demands more effective coordinated port operations and policy.
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Ummo Bruns
February 24, 2014 at 3:28 pmThanks for this interesting article. Personally I am a great fan of ports working together, actually for quite some years. Unfortunately some ports seem to have difficulty to jump over their shadow when it comes to jointly explore and reach the hinterland. Examples Rotterdam/Antwerp or even nationally Zeebrugge/Antwerp: talking is one thing, but acting a different ball game.