{"id":1413,"date":"2018-08-29T12:13:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T17:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aapaseaports.naymicrosite2.wpengine.com\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2020-04-23T07:52:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T12:52:44","slug":"intermodal-update-ships-larger-ships-mean-big-changes-for-u-s-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/29\/intermodal-update-ships-larger-ships-mean-big-changes-for-u-s-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERMODAL UPDATE \u2013 SHIPS: Larger Ships Mean Big Changes for U.S. Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aapaseaports.naymicrosite2.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/08\/Web-ship-POLB-400x267.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1385\" src=\"http:\/\/aapaseaports.naymicrosite2.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/08\/Web-ship-POLB-400x267-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/08\/Web-ship-POLB-400x267-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/08\/Web-ship-POLB-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Changes in ship sizes, especially the differences in sizes, are requiring ports to consistently update the way in which these ships are received and processed and the infrastructure needed to do so.<\/p>\n<p><em>* By Mary Lou Jay *<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over the past two decades, the largest vessels in the world\u2019s shipping fleet have more than doubled in size. In 2005, the largest container ships were just under 10,000 TEUs; today, IHS Markit reports that 80 percent of current orders are for ships larger than 10,000 TEU. In 2017, the 21,413 TEU OOCL Hong Kong became the world\u2019s largest container ship, but two shipping lines have already ordered 22,000 TEU ships.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the medium-sized ships displaced by these large vessels have been scrapped. The ship breaking industry reported a record high volume of container ship scrapping for 2016. But shipping lines are also deploying the 6,000-10,000 TEU vessels in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>In his report, \u201cBig Ships, Big Challenges: The Impact of Mega Container Vessels on U.S. Port Authorities,\u201d Noel Hacegaba, the Port of Long Beach\u2019s chief commercial officer and managing director of commercial operations, noted, \u201cThe arrival of the larger ships is creating a cascading effect in which ships being replaced by the mega vessels on the major trade lanes are being deployed in the smaller trade routes. Thus, the strain of larger vessels has the potential to affect all ports, big and small.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the largest ships generally don\u2019t come to North America, U.S. ports are handling bigger vessels than before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the North American perspective, the fastest growth in the size of ships used in vessel deployment is the Asian trade,\u201d said Steve Rothberg, partner in Mercator International LLC. A decade ago, 5,000-6,000 TEU ships were considered the norm in transpacific service, but there are fewer now and their numbers will continue to decline. A large number of services are now operating ships in the 8,000-9,000 TEU range, and at least one shipping company is routinely using 14,000 TEU ships from Asia to California. Three or four others are deploying vessels between 11,000 and 13,000 TEUs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seaportsmag-digital.com\/aapq\/0318_fall_2018\/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1419359#articleId1419359\"><strong><em>Read More\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes in ship sizes, especially the differences in sizes, are requiring ports to consistently update the way in which these ships are received and processed and the infrastructure needed to do so. * By Mary Lou Jay * Over the past two decades, the largest vessels in the world\u2019s shipping fleet have more than doubled &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,4,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipment","category-features","category-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}