{"id":145,"date":"2018-06-07T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2018\/06\/07\/megaships-force-continual-upgrade-of-ports\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:09:24","slug":"megaships-force-continual-upgrade-of-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2018\/06\/07\/megaships-force-continual-upgrade-of-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Megaships force continual upgrade of ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s according to Marco Neelsen, chief executive of Malaysia\u2019s Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), who added at TOC Asia that the increasing cost of creating ports is raising the barrier to entry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNegotiation power is going down with the alliances,\u201d Mr Neelsen continued. \u201cYou need capacity and you need spare capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PTP has spent $400m in 2017 and 2018 so far on infrastructure to ensure that the terminal remains competitive, he said, with the port also having to obtain larger cranes \u201cto stay in the game\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to invest in infrastructure,\u201d Mr Neelsen said. \u201cWe have invested, but we have to continue to invest.\u201d PTP anticipates it will have 55 berths with a capacity of 53m teu by 2070.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The continual increase in the size of ships is forcing a relentless upgrade of ports, with the question for ports now being more one of capability than one of capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-container-cargo-handling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}