The increase of the dimension of the portacontainer will affect the development of the Mediterranean ports



The increment of the dimension of the portacontenitori ships and the demographic increase is elements that will guide the development and the widening of the ports of the area of the Mediterranean. It has emphasized John Trenchard, director for the harbour investments for Europe and the Mediterranean of terminalista society APM Terminals (shipowning group A.P. Møller-Mærsk), taking part to the fourth edition of the Med Freight Conference held last week to Istanbul.

"The navigation societies - Trenchard has explained - are trying to increase the dimensions of the ships that they land at the market Turkish, that he is a natural candidate for the tonnage generated from the Asia-Europe services". The manager of APM Terminals has observed that the last generation of Large Hooligan Container Ships (ULCS), that it reaches the ability to 18.000 teu, probably will be employed on the commercial route Europe-Make East that it journeys in the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal since up to now every new ULCS is introduced on this route. It is previewed - it has remembered - than before these ships will enter in service in 2013. Moreover the ships that currently are used in the connections between Asia and Europe will come employees in the currently operated services with smaller ships.

"The planning of the ports - it has found Trenchard - will have to reflect the progresses completed in the planning of the ships and the their new operating requirements". Within 2014 - it has explained - beyond 260 container vessels of the ability at least 10,000 teu they will be introduced in the world-wide fleet and this will demand new accessibility and improvements of productivity to the container terminal and the ports.

If the ports of southern Europe - it has found Trenchard - are planned for rates of growth of the containerized trade more slows, for the ports of call of the Africa North and Turkey, in particular, they are previewed growth potential entusiasmanti. "Turkey - the representative of the Dutch terminalista society has said - has some very valid ports to the service of an economy in fast expansion and here the challenge will be that to develop activity of world-wide level".

Currently APM Terminals is present in the Mediterranean area with terminal and activity in the ports of Algeciras, Port Saïd, and Gioia Tauro and to Prunes, in the Black Sea, let alone with terminalistiche activities in the Moroccan port of Tanger Med, hardly outside the Strait of Gibraltar. Moreover the society has in phase of development the new terminalistica platform of the port of Savona Goes.