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Niklas Enggaard Zalewski:
The greatest problem in Felixstowe is their slow handling of the vessels. It is often called Felixslowe, because the container movements per hour are often very low.

Andrew McAlpine:
"The greatest problem in Felixstowe is their slow handling of the vessels. It is often called Felixslowe, because the container movements per hour are often very low"

Nice quote Niklas, Felixslow!!! i like it!    :-D  :-D

Kelvin, Terminal productivity is very complex and is more of an art than a science, this is due to all the different players ie terminal operators,shipping lines, hauliers etc measuring it according to their own self interests.
Shipping lines tend to concentrate on measures such as container lifts per hour (box rate) as this directly affects the amount of time a ship spends on the berth.


Felixslow,(sorry) Felixstowe's box rate is currently around 20 moves per hour
Southampton is around 22 moves per hour
Rotterdam/Antwerp around 30 moves per hour

some ports in the USA can average 40 moves per hour

Hope this helps slightly!
Andrew

Kelvin Davies:
Andrew,
Thanks for the info. I am surprised to read that Southampton is so slow.
I have often photographed ships from Marchwood/Opposite 201 berth and have sometimes watched the containers coming off at what seemed to be much faster than 20 per hour.
The next time I am down that way (probably tomorrow as I want some better pictures of the Maersk Donegal and Chicago Express), I shall make a point of counting for a short period. Those Daleks certainly don't hang about, whizzing round the terminal!
They are going to be busy there; as well as Maersk Donegal coming in for 204 and Chicago Express for 206, they have New Orleans Express sailing from 205 and NYK Aquarius from 207 a couple of hours before the other two arrive.
Looking at AIS just now, I see New Orleans Express is just being dragged round the Upper Swinging ground on her way in to the berth. She is over an hour behind schedule now and is due out again at 09:00 so those cranes will be busy tonight!
Kelvin

cazenove:
The quote below is from the Port of Tanjung Pelepas' website.PTP is Maersk's hub in Malaysia.Assuming that they use 3 cranes per berth, that works out to 35 moves per hour per crane.With 4 being used, that would be around 26 moves per hour.Whats interesting is that this is the average figure for the whole year and i know that they normally do a lot better than this.

Quote
"The Port of Tanjung Pelepas has been recognised for the Highest Berth Productivity for 2005 at the recent APM Terminals awards held in Shanghai. The award follows PTP

Morten:
They might be able to average 40 boxes pr hour in the US, but within the last six months i've been calling Pier 400 in Long Beach (Maersk line terminal) twice and even though they work pretty fast and their effective box rate might be 40/hour, but overall it is one of the slowest harbours i've ever been to because they stop working constantly! We completely emptied the ship (6000+ TEU) and it took them almost 60 hours using 5 cranes! This works out at just around 20 moves(TEU) pr crane pr hour! In some ports they load the stevedores onboard using the cranes even before we have the moring lines on the bollards! But in the us it can take hours before they start working because of all those stupid rules and regulations!

My personal experience is that the asian ports are by far the most effective overall!

But that is just my subjective opinion!

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