Vice president and chief financial officer Christian Moller Laursen has described the advent of a \u201cNew era in ports\u201d where container yards processing significantly larger volumes from individual vessels as well as general global volume growth will have to move cargoes in time for the next scheduled vessel, and then the process will begin all over again, in some cases on a daily basis.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe port industry does not have the luxury of being able to react to changes in the market environment; we must be able to anticipate and be able to deliver the terminal capacity and productivity that our customers will require\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Another issue is productivity, highlighted by APMT\u2019s Terminals\u2019 head of project implementation, Soren Sjostrand Jakobsen, at the Future Ports conference in Stockholm.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOur customers are building bigger and bigger ships and it is imperative that we are able to increase our delivered productivity at minimum the same pace as the ships grow \u2013 but preferably much more,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cAPM Terminals has a range of initiatives to improve processes as well as applying new and innovative solutions and technology to lift productivity. We \u2013 and other terminals operators I\u2019m sure \u2013 have terminals in their portfolio where a 40%-50% productivity improvement is not an unrealistic goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cProductivity will be the battleground for terminal operators and those who are able to meet our customers\u2019 requirements will be the winners.\u201d<\/p>\n
A similar message was given by APM Terminals\u2019 crane and engineering services\u2019 managing director, Halfdan Ross, to the TOC Container Supply Chain Asia Conference in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
Discussing quay cranes needed for larger vessels, as well as quay design, he said: \u201cStudies have been completed on the feasibility of constructing containerships with a 22,000 teu capacity, so planning for crane and other infrastructure support to accommodate such vessels and their container volumes is a very necessary exercise for any major hub port,\u201d noted Mr Ross.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are issues of structural stiffness, weight, visibility and wind load which all must be taken into account with cranes of such dimensions, along with the question of upgrading existing equipment or installing new cranes entirely.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe point is that ultra-large vessels are already in service, and even larger vessels will follow, and so the time to prepare the necessary terminal and quay infrastructure is now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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