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Container Ports Threatens Collapse
The containers pile up ever higher: according to a study, Europe's major ports with the growing trade flows little step. Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Antwerp threatens Handelsinfarkt.
Hamburg - The northern ports have a grace period of maybe seven years - then they can not absorb more containers. This is from a study of HypoVereinsbank (HVB). "The Wilhelmshaven planned Jade-Weser port is because the Ausweichhafen only a drop in the bucket," said Ingmar Loges, head of HVB Global Shipping.
DPA
container terminal in Hamburg: Always grßere fleets with more containers grßeren
According to the calculations of the Bank and the consulting firm Bonum growing container traffic in the coming years to eleven percent annually. Industry experts have been expected of 9.2 percent. To cover the rise in the ports of the so-called Northern Range by 2015 from currently 34 to 77 million standard containers (TEUs).
The difference with the previous forecasts of around nine million TEUs - this is almost Grßenordnung of the current total cargo handled in the port of Hamburg. "The ports have their capacity planning urgently corrected upwards," said Loges.
The cause for even greater growth, the HVB - in addition to the increasing imports especially from China - the trend toward extremely large container ships. While currently only nine so-called mega carriers with a carrying capacity of more than 10,000 TEUs in the world's oceans are, by 2012 we should have already 173 large container ships. This is apparent from the order books of shipyards. "For this large fleet, with its clear vergrßerten number of containers must urgently place in the ports," said Loges of HVB.
The Bank is one of more than a thousand ships and financed a volume of over seven billion euros of the world's leading Schiffsfinanzierern.
SIL / dpa / ddp
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