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Ports and Logistics
The Chinese digital octopus spreading its tentacles through smart port ambitions
Andre Wheeler carries a warning today about China’s LOGINK digital platform. As the world of shipping has moved towards smart…
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Are ports the new battlefront in the digital supply chain dilemma?
Andre Wheeler on the risks of signing up to Beijing’s Logink port management system. After attending a recent update on…
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Shipping and the digital integration required by China’s Belt Road Initiative
Beijing’s Digital Silk Road initiative runs contrary to many data sharing platform projects around the world, something shipping will have…
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The China – EU rail network and the US election
It may well be asked what the two things in the headline above have in common. Simply put, they both…
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Is China splitting smart supply chains into two digital ecosystems?
There has been progress within the maritime and shipping sector in creating a digital maritime ecosystem that is in the…
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Are smart ports progressing or treading water?
The current escalation of digitalisation and IT development has been given a new lease of life under the new normal…
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Is Hambantota an unwitting pawn in the new political order?
It was recently announced by China Merchants Port Holdings (CMPH) that it was transferring 23.5% of its 85% shareholding of…
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Trieste’s shattered Chinese dream
When Italy signed up to the China Belt Road Initiative in 2019, it had dreams of becoming the key gateway…
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Covid-19 highlights gaps in smart port development
One of the many focal points coming out of Covid-19 has been the increasing role being played by technology. Technology…
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Is China’s Belt Road Initiative the start of a new Cold War?
Whilst there has been much commentary around the Belt Road Initiative (BRI) and its geopolitical intentions, not much has been…
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Is Kenya’s Mombasa Port another victim of China’s debt diplomacy?
The crescendo around claims that the Belt Road Initiative (BRI) is nothing more than Chinese debt diplomacy to secure strategic…
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China’s Belt Road Initiative – consolidation or dislocation?
There has been ongoing commentary that China’s BRI is about to collapse as it was ill conceived and planned. After…
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Will 5G change logistics and ports?
The recent conference and summit circuit in Singapore has had a strong focus on technology and how it will forever…
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Smart ports and supply chain along the digital Silk Road
There has been much debate around the need for a level of digital integration within logistics and supply chain systems.…
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What constitutes a smart port?
There has been much commentary around the development of smart port technology and the new era of the digital supply…
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Switzerland’s curious Belt Road Initiative stance
When one thinks of Switzerland, images of mountains, chocolate, cheese and all things nice spring to mind. We also see…
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Asia
Is Singapore’s new megaport a strategic masterstroke?
Singapore has successfully built itself into a maritime powerhouse through exploiting its strategic location within the old trade routes. Innovation…
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Trieste, the skeleton in the closet?
As the dust settles on the signing Italy’s MOU with China, focus now shifts as to how this new arrangement…
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Europe
Italy’s belt road embrace
With Italy becoming the first G7 country to enter an MOU with China and its Belt Road Initiative (BRI), there…
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Europe
How Trieste could become the Singapore of the Adriatic
There has been much commentary around the intent and development of China’s push to increase its trade and energy security…
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