Alarm bells may ring in Europe as report opens the way to compare port efficiency

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Attempts to introduce an objective measure of container port and terminal productivity took a great stride forward yesterday when the US-based Journal of Commerce (JOC) released the initial findings of a five-year investigation into berth efficiency at competing facilities.

The early results from the Port Productivity White Paper throw up some surprising results: the northern Chinese port of Qingdao is named as the most productive in the world; APM Terminals’ facility in the Japanese port of Yokohama is the most productive ...