East beating west – a tale of two (US) coasts
And no change anytime soon
Long and absorbing piece examining the relationship between ports and their host cities, and how the developments taking place in container shipping are having a profound effect on the way some cities – in this article, several secondary cities in Indonesia come under the microscope – are securing their futures by integrating themselves into the supply chains in the way that they haven’t done before. But it’s not easy, particularly since ports and their cities often have diametrically opposed needs.
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Forwarding M&A round-up: plenty of action making smaller headlines
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Some ocean trades stabilising, but transatlantic rates still falling
DB Schenker sale – storm clouds gathering
Another rail strike in Germany to add to European freight troubles
Comment on this article
Lou Roll
March 12, 2014 at 1:00 pmSeveral of these interesting questions and objectives have been discussed and progressed for years within the AIVP Port Cities International Association. See http://www.aivp.org/en/