{"id":4058,"date":"2014-11-20T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2014\/11\/20\/concerns-on-fragmented-and-reactive-industry\/"},"modified":"2014-11-20T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T09:31:00","slug":"concerns-on-fragmented-and-reactive-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2014\/11\/20\/concerns-on-fragmented-and-reactive-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns on fragmented and reactive industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The challenge is that a lot of ports have had to be reactive, to peaks, to alliances and so on &#8211; all things that are out of a port&#8217;s control,&#8221; said Drewry&#8217;s Neil Davidson at the JOC conference in London this week.<\/p>\n<p>He described the fragmentation in terms of terminal capacity, both physical and in terms of ownership, as &#8220;not what the market is looking for&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Davidson added that throughput peaks caused by ship size upscaling would not be ironed out until ship sizes catch up with trade growth, warning that &#8220;it takes times for this to catch up &#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fragmented and reactive, the port industry is fighting to balance long term investments against short term decision-making.<\/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":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","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=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}