That\u2019s according to Rainer Marian, sales director for big trucks for the Europe, the Middle East and Africa region at manufacturer Hyster.<\/p>\n
Speaking exclusively to Port Strategy<\/em> at TOC Europe 2018, Mr Marian claimed that inland terminals have diversified from being \u201cfairly concentrated on one type of product, mostly containers\u201d to \u201chandling a large number of types of goods\u201d.<\/p>\n This diversification presents an opportunity to the industry in that it ultimately needs to find logistical solutions for the change, working with a different toolset.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom our company\u2019s perspective, a big opportunity lies in the fact that at the moment, the terminal operators are concentrating a lot into inland terminals,\u201d Mr Marian said.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause of that, they are buying up land and expanding their activities from behind the ports into the hinterland.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is an opportunity that has resulted from a challenge that the industry is facing.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Marian also said that previously, the business of terminal operators\u2019 stopped after the unloading of vessels, but customers now want more.<\/p>\n \u201cThey want service, if possible, all the way to the point of sale,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Key opportunities in the ports and terminals market are a result of the changing structure of the nature of inland terminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terminal-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}