In the field of the containerized marine transport more and more cargos will be sent with direct services of line



After a decade of limited variations of the world-wide economy, in 2017 a period of resumption is begun, with the indicators of the main economies of the world that have recorded a gradual improvement and a stabilization, and the economic rate of growth has reached +3.6%. It evidences the last relationship "Global Port Development (2017)" of the Shanghai International Shipping Institute (SISI) finding that with the current positive moment of the world-wide economy the harbour and marine field would have to enter in a phase of consolidation to which it would have to follow a new increase.

Phase of consolidation of the increase - the SISI observes - in which the world-wide ports have entered, with 2017 that has seen the main European harbour ports of call - in constant increase - to record an increase of +4.9% of the traffic of the goods regarding the year precedence; with the ports of the Americas that they have interrupted the phase of bending in order to enter in one of resumption, with a traffic that last year in the main American ports is increased of +7.1% (trend - the SISI specifies - threatened from introduced commercial and industrial protectionism from the policies of Donald Trump); with the volume of traffic in the main Asian ports that in 2017 is gone up of +7.2% (16,64 billion tons of goods enlivened by the single Chinese ports, +6.9%, of which 400 million tons of marine exchange with foreign country, +6.4%). In the 2017 flow of goods in the main ports Africans it is increased of +3.5%, while in Australia the ports of call - that they have the impact quickly negative of the effects of the Debby hurricane and other adverse meteorological events - have recorded an increase of handling pairs only to +2.3%.

The excursus of the SISI on the activity of the world-wide ports it evidences that in the 2017 total containerized trade it has been pairs to 740 million teu, volume that constitutes the record of last the six years and represents an increment of +6% on 2016. Supported increase trend that - second the Chinese institute - will continue also in 2018. Moreover the SISI emphasizes that if the percentage of increase of the traffic of the container more is elevated regarding that of the total traffic goods harbour world-wide, in order to maintain the more and more fast shipment rhythm door-to-door, in the field of quantitative the containerized marine cargo transport an always greater one will be sent with directed services of line, a consequent prosecuzione of the decrease of the quota traffic of transfer of the container in the ports and with an increase of the enlivened empty quota container.