Best of the rest
Duisburg, Germany Throughput: 955,000teu
(-5.1%)
The German inland port would have appeared at number 100 in the Top 100 league had the Chinese government not amalgamated a group of smaller ports under the umbrella of Foshan port, pushing Duisburg down one place to number 101. Duisburg suffered a sharp decline in cargo flows due to
the global economic crisis, with a substantial reduction in coal, iron and steel cargo. Nonetheless, port has benefited from various investments in recent years intended to develop intelligent transportation networks and to strengthen the port as a logistic hub.
Ashdod, Israel Throughput: 893,000teu (+7.9%)
Growth of 65,000teu, or 7.9%, propelled Israel’s second largest container port up the world rankings but it narrowly missed joining the Top 100, coming in at number 102 with 893,000teu handled. As the closest port to the capital, Ashdod’s main role is as a
gateway to the country, with Zim, Maersk Line, MSC and Yang Ming among its main customer base. Recent years have seen the port of Ashdod expand and modernise
its facilities with new berths constructed and modern handling equipment installed. This process has seen handling rates and productivity enhanced and resulted in existing customers routing more cargo through the port as well as attracting additional service strings. This year has seen a “step up” in its electronic applications, which
have been co-ordinated and channelled through the so-called Nalan system to promote a paperwork-free port. Since mid-June, for instance, the discharge of containers from the port has only been possible through the use of electronic documentation. While it is still early days, trials indicate that the process should
speed up transfers, free up space in the yard and raise cargo handling efficiency further.
Guayaquil, Ecuador Throughput: 884,100teu (+1%)
Greater containerisation of bananas helped buoy box volumes in Ecuador’s most important export gateway, Guayaquil, in 2009. More than 2m tonnes of general cargo a year and
884,100teu passed over the quays at Guayaquil’s four main terminals in 2009. With marginal growth of 9,145teu, it was the one of the few ports on the Pacific coast of South America not to feel a slide in its volumes during last year’s downturn, helping propel it to the fringe of the Top 100 for the first time – coming in at number 103. The increased participation of the container trade in Ecuador’s banana exports is likely to underpin future
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www.cargosystems.net The port authority, Duisport, points out that its ship,
railroad and truck container trade added up to 1.82m teu and almost reached the 2008 level of 1.89m teu. However, for the purposes of this survey, such double counting is not allowed and containers are counted only once as they transit a port. A new railroad service across the Ruhr region, the
Glückauf-Express, and the logport II gateway strategy have enabled Duisburg to generate cargo throughput during the period of an economic slump, says Duisport. A new terminal, Duisburg Kombiterminal (DKT),
owned by Bertschi Group, is being developed at Duisport’s logport site at a cost of €15m. The terminal will have an annual capacity of 120,000teu and will be equipped with a 65-metre span gantry crane, six 470-metre rail tracks, two truck lanes and eight container storage lanes. Barge services will operate through the neighbouring DIT site.
growth. The move is being driven by ICTSI’s Contecon facility and carriers like Maersk Line, which has a direct service from Ecuador to key markets in Europe. Contecon handles more than two thirds of the port’s
containers. ICTSI has invested US$100m to improve the terminal’s box handling capacity since taking over operations in 2006. Much of the investment, which includes three post-panamax ship-to-shore gantry cranes and eight RTGs, has been targeted towards shifting more bananas from traditional reefer ships into reefer containers. Guayaquil handles around 75% of the country’s
international trade and over 90% of Ecuador’s container traffic. Productivity at Contecon is expected to be lower this year as the result of an accident that destroyed one of its three gantries in April.
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