News / Northern Europe's ports will see some growth this year, but it may be a struggle

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The latest edition of Global Port Tracker predicts that all north European container ports will be “in positive territory” in 2014, punching through the 40 million teu threshold – excluding empties and transhipment.

But the report, published by Hackett Associates in collaboration with the Bremen-based Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics [ISL], adds that double-digit growth, like that enjoyed in 2007 and 2008 when terminals were operating close to capacity, will remain a distant memory.

The founder of Hackett Associates, Ben Hackett, ...