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The growth in maritime trade and the increasing size of vessels has put significant pressure on the existing port infrastructure in Southeast Asia, resulting in congestion and delays. As a result, ports across the region have begun announcing a range of port masterplans, to dramatically develop and expand coastal infrastructure....

With the formation of new mega shipping alliances and construction of new mega-vessels, port developers are forced to either invest in expensive new infrastructure or risk being omitted from shipping routes. To learn more about the implications of these developments, we hear from Dr. Jonathan Beard, Global Lead Ports &...

In this presentation, Andy Lane, Partner at CTI Consultancy, lists the variety of potential terminal industry value pools and provides an improvement roadmap for terminals in Southeast Asia.

In this presentation, Jason Chiang, Director of Ocean Shipping Consultants at Royal Haskoning Group, outlines the major trends affecting ports and terminals including: new shipping alliances, increasing vessel size and the conflicting interests of stakeholders at container ports.

In this article we take a look at three leading examples from Southeast Asia’s most modern ports, Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia’s newest port, Teluk Lamong in Surabaya, East Java.

All eyes are on Indonesia, with President Joko Widodo’s Sea Toll Road initiative calling for an estimated US $429 billion worth of investment for the development of 24 commercial ports, over 1,000 non-commercial ports and the procurement of numerous vessels between 2015 and 2019. Whilst the full details of some...

In this presentation, Mark Yong, Director at BMT Asia Pacific analyses Indonesia’s economic growth and rapid port development. The slides also take a close look at Kijing Deepwater Port in West Kalimantan, to examine the economic opportunities, general conditions and possible port layout combinations.

Increasing competition between ports in Southeast Asia is driving them to increase their efficiency, but how? To answer this question we spoke with Andy Lane, a Partner at CTI Consultancy, who explained the reason why ports tend to be inefficient and the 3 steps to transform their processes.