Category Archives: Ports and Terminals

Earlier this week, The Economist online edition posted the 2009 list of the world’s largest container ports side by side with the list of 20 years ealier. Never mind the magazine’s one-paragraph commentary on how Asian ports have dislodged their European and American counterparts from the Top 20. Everyone knows that. What struck us was [...]

Manila South Harbor operator Asian Terminals Inc (ATI) recently released its financial results for the first half of 2010. Net income up 75.4% at PHP912.1 million (USD20.1m). Revenues up 23.1% at PHP2,036.7 million (USD44.9m). As for cargo volumes, we’ll have to consult a psychic and see if we can get something. The publicly listed Philippine [...]

The waterfront is larger than life. It’s not only the huge ships and the huge machines that make it so. It’s the vibrancy of human commerce under a bright sun with the smell of salt water filling the air. Here are some old photos we took when we were still using a manual SLR film [...]

Some fellows at Manila-based International Container Terminal Services Inc must be feeling slightly giddy. The company’s combined volume from April to June was up 25% at 1.048 million TEUs, the second quarter in a row of double-digit growth. All three geographic segments of the Group – Asia, Americas and EMEA – posted double-digit increases. ICTSI’s [...]

A new US West Coast direct service by American President Lines (APL) has spotlighted the strategic role of the Naha International Container Terminal in Okinawa operated by International Container Terminal Services Inc’s (ICTSI) Japanese unit. The weekly Pacific South 5 (PS5) all-US Flag service links the ports of San Pedro and Oakland, California; Dutch Harbor, [...]

The big fish is Hong Kong-based Ocean Overseas Container Line (OOCL), one of the world’s top 20 boxship operators. OOCL has moved its container feeder service in Poland from Gdansk Container Terminal, Port of Gdansk, to the Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) in the Port of Gdynia. From 6th July OOCL started calling twice a week [...]

It’s been hot and stuffy at the now-privatised Manila North Harbor with all the bashing that has been going on against Harbour Centre Port Terminal Inc (HCPTI) But now comes beer giant San Miguel Corp  teaming up with the North Harbor’s new operator as minority partner in Manila North Harbour Port Inc (MNHPI). SMC is [...]

There was not a lot of fanfare but Manila-based International Container Terminal Services Inc had reason to celebrate. Its wholly owned subsidiary in Brunei Darussalam, New Muara Container Terminal Services Sdn Bhd (NMCTS), marked in May its first year of operating the Muara Container Terminal (MCT) and the figures are quite encouraging. In 2009 MCT [...]

Officers of Filipino-owned International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) and the Port of Portland in Oregon, USA, recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement on a 25-year lease to operate the Terminal 6 container and breakbulk facility.

Filipino-owned International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has expanded its global portfolio with the signing on 12th May of a 25-year lease with the Port of Porland, Oregon, for the container/breakbulk facility at Terminal 6 (copyrighted photo courtesy of the Port of Portland)

First quarter throughput figures released last week by Filipino-owned International Container Terminal Services Inc should erase any doubts that the world economy is on the rebound and ports around the world are springing back to life. Compared with the same period in 2009, ICTSI’s consolidated volume was up 27.3% at 962,028 TEUs with double-digit growth [...]

Quien tiene tejado de vidrio, no tire piedras al de su vecino. The old Spanish proverb says those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. We were reminded of it after receiving a text message yesterday from Michael B Cuanzon, a retired ship master who’s a maritime lecturer at the state-run Development Academy of [...]

The vilification campaign against Manila North Harbour Port Inc, the new operator of the Philippines’ main domestic port terminal, rumbles on. The latest brickbat to be thrown at the company is the 5% concession fee payable by third-party service providers. The vilifiers are painting MNHPI and its 38-year-old CEO, Michael Romero, as greedy uptarts who [...]