Building the nexus

摘要

One Gibraltar ship agent told Fairplay earlier this month: "Competition has brought us so many customers that facilities have been overwhelmed". He was frustrated because, for the first time in many years, adverse weather had closed thernport on consecutive days: that's bad for business.rnClosure in March came a matter of months after a memorably severe storm had driven the bulker Fedra onto Europa Point, the southerly tip of the Rock. The casualty had brought Gibraltar shipping once again to the world's headlines: in August 2007 the Handy-max bulker New Flame sank after it collided with the Danish product tanker Torm Gertrud. The storms underline the need for better control over vessel arrivals and departures in limited waters.