News / Shippers blame ULCVs for causing congestion and delays at European hub ports

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Despite a reduction in weekly capacity and port calls on the main Asia-Europe trade, both carriers’ customers and suppliers said they were continuing to struggle with the cargo peaks caused by the continuing deployment of ultra-large container ships on the trade.

According to Dynamar data, presented by the analyst’s senior shipping consultant Dirk Visser at last week’s TOC Container Supply Chain event in Hamburg, in 2015 there were 21 weekly services between Asia and North Europe deploying 229 ships with a ...