{"id":9174,"date":"2014-11-19T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2014\/11\/19\/dark-side-of-mega-ships\/"},"modified":"2014-11-19T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T10:38:00","slug":"dark-side-of-mega-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/dark-side-of-mega-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark side of mega ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Ports in Asia that were previously thought to be immune to congestion have succumbed to delays as a result of upscaled ship sizes, proving that calls of larger ships are placing unsustainable pressures on ports.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the JOC conference in London today, Mr Lutje said: &#8220;All carriers have now found out the dark side of the larger ladies. Carriers are aware of this and I&#8217;m optimistic that schedule reliability is now priority number one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So-called &#8216;hyper peaks&#8217; caused by calls from these larger ships are leading to a decrease in port productivity, added TIL head Laurent Martens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ports need to adapt: adapt the port&#8217;s operations to deal with &#8216;hyper peaks&#8217;; investment in equipment; and optimise preparation of calls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also highlighted the conflict between ship and terminal planners as a driver for operational issues at ports today.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carriers and ports alike are fast discovering the dark side of mega container ships, according to Thomas Lutje, managing director of HHLA Container 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":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174","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=9174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}