There has been further speculation over the ports and terminals that will lose out if the P3 shipping alliance goes ahead. Port Strategy revealed last week that unconfirmed rumours suggested that APM Terminals and Hutchison Port Holdings will win P3 traffic in Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte. This begged the question as to where this will leave the new DP World-led Rotterdam World Gateway terminal. But now Alphaliner says that Port Klang, owned by Westports, and the Port of Rotterdam stand to lose more than half their current port Asia-Europe calls. Sjaak Poppe, spokesperson for the Port of Rotterdam, told Port Strategy: “At the end of the day the number of containers is what counts, not the number of calls. With shipping lines sending their largest vessels to Rotterdam, we don’t expect to see less containers in Rotterdam.” He added that the proposed service network “is not cast in concrete, as the Dutch saying goes. The new terminals coming into operation at Maasvlakte 2 from the end of 2014 will change the [shipping] landscape.” PS approached Westports for a comment but the operator hadnt replied at the time of publication. The P3 shipping alliance of Maersk Line, MSC and CMA CGM will operate a fleet of 255 ships with total capacity of 2.6m teu on 27 service loops. However it’s still to be approved by regulatory authorities in Europe, the US and China before its scheduled launch in spring 2014.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:30:57 +0000
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