Seaport Trends

We are preparing quarterly summaries of container traffic on the West Coast of North America and publishing them because of the massive declines of container trade in late 2008 and most of 2009. The link to the trends publications is:

Seaport Trends

Seaport Newsletter

From time to time, we will publish reports on current projects or other industry developments we find interesting. These are found in the Seaport Newsletter:

No. 6, March 2009 - The world economy and container trade tank. What are the causes, outlooks and appropriate industry responses?

No. 5, August 2006 - Are Scandinavian Ports and Terminals Making Bad Investments?

No. 4, October 2004 - Cost Efficiency and High Productivity Supported by Intelligent IT Systems

No. 3, May 2003 - Transport Modes in US-Mexico Agricultural Trade: Grains and Perishables by Land and Ocean

No. 2, August 1998 - Forecasting Trade for Port Projects in the Developing World.

No. 1, January, 1995 - Private Sector investments in Indonesian Public Ports

Newsletter 1 is largely text, with two small and easily loaded .jpg graphs.   Newsletter 2 has greater graphics content, including .gif graphs of up to about 65k.  The graphics are on separate linked pages, allowing persons with slower systems to access the Newsletter No. 2 text itself relatively quickly.

Articles by Seaport

"Selling the family silver," Containerisation International, June 2008. This article deals with the implications of container terminal acquisitions.

"Everyone in the pool!," Containerisation International, July 2007. This article deals with container trucking.

"Yard Automation," Cargo Systems, September 2006. This article deals with container terminal automation.

"Heavyweight Boxing," Baltic World Ports, special supplement to the Baltic Magazine, July 2001. This article deals with the outlook for post-Panamax container ships and ports.

Articles on Seaport

The following articles discuss or mention Seaport:

Lloyd’s List - Monday 8 June 2009

The East African, December 11, 2000

Guest Papers

We also encourage contributions from others on topics of universal importance to the maritime and international transportation industry. These may be papers or other articles found elsewhere on the Web, or may be Guest Papers written by invitation for posting on our site.