News / Productivity is declining at the world's biggest ports, 'but mega-boxships are not to blame'

Despite carrier pleas that port services need to improve in order to efficiently handle ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs), it seems productivity is falling.

According to new analysis presented by Andy Lane, partner at CTI Consultancy, at this week’s TOC Container Supply Chain conference in Singapore, berth productivity at some 20 of the largest ports in Asia and Europe is in decline.

Using data gleaned from the Journal of Commerce’s berth productivity survey, and comparing performance in the first half of 2014 with the first half of ...