Cargo ships seeking to offload their containers at ports in Northern Europe are facing delays of up to 70 hours due to over-congestion. And some port operators are afraid the delays could get even higher.<\/p>\n
According to a report issued by the logistics technology firm CargoSmart, severe backups are occurring in ports at Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Antwerp, Belgium; and Hamburg, Germany, among other northern European ports.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the Hamburg port said the delays are causing unforeseen problems.<\/p>\n
“You can imagine that, for example, export containers booked on a container vessel arrive in time in the port and then they are parked on a container terminal waiting for the delayed vessel some days,” the spokesman told the website JOC<\/a>. “This brings stowage problems to container terminals. These terminals are specialized in just receiving boxes and loading them onto ships — or in case of import boxes — on rail trucks or barges for transport. Container terminals are not designed as big parking places for boxes.”<\/p>\n Despite the delays, European ports are handling more cargo containers than ever before. In Hamburg — Europe’s second largest port — a record 4.8 million “twenty-foot equivalent unit” (TEU) cargo containers were handled during the first half of this year. That’s a 7% increase over the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cargo ships seeking to offload their containers at ports in Northern Europe are facing delays of up to 70 hours due to over-congestion. And some port operators are afraid the delays could get even higher. According to a report issued by the logistics technology firm CargoSmart, severe backups are occurring in ports at Rotterdam, the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,293],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-6880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-material-handling","category-news","tag-material-handling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12478,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions\/12478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}