A REPORT commissioned by the London's Global Shippers Forum (GSF) found that global ports lost a third of their expected capacity to ship containers during 2021 because carriers failed to make their usual port calls..Liverpool area MDS Transmodal (MDST) research said this created delays and disruption for shippers and economic harm to some smaller developing nations.
Lost capacity is a measure of total containership slots that were expected to be available at the port but did not materialise because the port was skipped.
The ports of Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Piraeus (Greece) saw 40 per cent of the expected container capacity failing to arrive in the last quarter of 2021.
In addition, in the EU, Gulf, and Indian subcontinent (ISC) region, Felixstowe (UK) and Jebel Ali (UAE) failed to see a third of their expected capacity.
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Lost capacity is a measure of total containership slots that were expected to be available at the port but did not materialise because the port was skipped.
The ports of Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Piraeus (Greece) saw 40 per cent of the expected container capacity failing to arrive in the last quarter of 2021.
In addition, in the EU, Gulf, and Indian subcontinent (ISC) region, Felixstowe (UK) and Jebel Ali (UAE) failed to see a third of their expected capacity.
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