News / Port sector players get together again – but their views on congestion are apart

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Global port industry players met in person for the first time in two years at this week’s TOC conference in Rotterdam, and opinion diverged on whether the congestion crippling terminal operations worldwide could end anytime soon.

Eleanor Hadland, senior ports & terminals analyst at Drewry, told delegates a recent survey by the consultancy showed “shippers don’t expect port congestion to improve until the second half of 2023, while freight rates are never going to return to pre-pandemic levels”.

Lamia Kerjoudj-Belkaid, secretary general ...