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Commonwealth Ofice, where plans for regeneration, energy mix futures

the declining UK lag were revealed.and North Sea decommissioning.

New initiatives were launched Participants were then divided into

following two studies which groups for lively workshops focusing

showed the lag needs to be more on social, technical, economic,

commercialised in order to remain environmental and political factors as

competitive.drivers of change and opportunities

for UK ports.

Quote of the day: read

and despairLondon tops Xinhua/

Baltic Exchange index for

maritime services
“I

don’t need ports: I get

everything I need from
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Amazon.” This rather ondon has come top of a listing

alarming ‘quote of the day’ emerged of maritime service centres

during Arup’s ‘Future of Ports: Port published by the Baltic Exchange

Regeneration’ event held as part of and Xinhua, China’s news agency

London International Shipping Week.during London International Shipping

The comment, made by a Week while Singapore heads the

teenager and reported by one of the overall list for its combined port and

participants, summed up perfectly maritime services offering.

the need for the ports sector to The International Shipping Centre

focus strongly on education and Development Index (ISCD) covers

engagement of the public and 46 of the world’s largest ports and

politicians; and, indeed, these two cities and is designed to bring clarity

words emerged again and again to investors and governments on

during the afternoon of discussions.the relative performance of shipping

Arup’s event opened with short centres around the world. London

presentations on port resiliencemakes second place on the overall

– managing complex assets, portindex, closely followed by Hong

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