{"id":8644,"date":"2012-10-24T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2012\/10\/24\/box-demand-and-capacity-mismatch-concerns\/"},"modified":"2012-10-24T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T11:41:00","slug":"box-demand-and-capacity-mismatch-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/equipment\/box-demand-and-capacity-mismatch-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Box demand and capacity mismatch concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Davidson, the company\u2019s senior advisor, ports, describes capacity as \u201clagging behind anticipated demand\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Navis World, Mr Davidson put world container demand growth for five years to 2017 at an average of 6% per annum, but with some big variations on a region by region basis.<\/p>\n<p>While North and South Europe looks flat, Eastern Europe demand growth will be close to 12% per annum, albeit from a low base.<\/p>\n<p>On the supply side, Mr Davidson said that forecasting terminal capacity has become much harder than forecasting demand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPort operators have become much more vague about capacity additions than they have been in the past, which makes it a lot harder for us to make this projection,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the consultant expects global port capacity to be 1.08bn teu by 2017, marking an average growth of 3.3% per annum. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mismatch between container terminal demand and capacity means there is an urgent need for growth in port development through to 2017, according to Drewry.<\/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":[62,63],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","category-products-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}