No room for complacency

Gazing into the future of the trade from a terminal capacity perspective, Drewrys ports director Neil Davidson told PS: ” Our analysis of supply and demand at the major North European deepsea container ports including UK, shows that even with the new developments which we definitely know are coming on stream, e. g. Deurganckdok in Antwerp, Port 2000 at Le Havre, Rotterdams Euromax, etc, average utilisation levels will still reach almost 90% by 2010. Plus of course, within this, certain ports and terminals are more intensively used than others.