News / The dilemma for container terminal builders: are the liner customers there?

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The disconnect between the ordering of new container vessels and the building of terminals to handle them seems to have grown ever wider. Reports of port congestion confuse shippers and 3PLs when there appears to be new terminal capacity available to carriers.

Containerships are generally ordered in year one and delivered in year three, but for new terminals – especially if they are to keep pace with the phenomenal jump in size and capacity of mega-vessels, the construction timeline is much ...