News / US port customers fear inefficiences may be compounded by bigger boxships

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US shippers have been voicing their concerns at TPM 2014 in Long Beach at the ability of terminals – particularly on the US west coast – to cope with the enforced cascading of bigger ships onto transpacific tradelanes.

Indeed, against a backcloth of the employers’ six-year agreement with the ILWU ending on June 30, some stakeholders are calling for more longshoremen to be recruited to cope with the peaks of the big ship calls.

In a session entitled Terminal Productivity and its ...