News / Can the world's ports and terminals take the strain as container throughput rises?

© Khunaspix Dreamstime.

“Cautious investor sentiment towards greenfield container terminal projects” could lead to steeply increasing box terminal utilisation and a possible decline in port productivity.

According to Drewry’s latest five-year container port demand forecast, volumes are set to increase on average by just under 6% a year.

This would add 240m teu to global container port throughput by 2022 – 45m teu a year – “broadly equivalent to the size of the world’s largest container port, Shanghai”.

However, at the same time, global capacity is set to increase by 2% ...