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PORT BOSSES EXPRESS URGENCY
01 Jan 2005
There is an urgent need for more deepsea container port capacity in the UK. Port operators have expressed their fear that without substantial expansion the UK's major ports will run out of capacity within six years. According to Drewry Shipping, 99% of the UK's imports (in volume terms) enter by sea. Capacity constraints lead to well publicised congestion at peak times and loss of business to European ports.
"Something has to be done and soon, " Steve Cuthbert, chairman of the UK Major Ports Group, said recently. "There are only two berths in the UK that will take the very biggest container ships, one at Southampton, one at Felixstowe. When the extension of the Trinity III terminal is completed, Felixstowe will have two."
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