The third edition of the IAPH World Ports Tracker has been published this week. For the first time, it combines S&P Global container terminal performance data for the third quarter of the year with survey responses from the world ports community on the same period. These include four new dashboards to reflect the comprehensive analysis being provided by our Risk and Resilience Technical Committee authors professor Theo Notteboom and professor Thanos Pallis. Theo and Thanos analyse year-on-year data as well as historic versus present data based on pre-pandemic figures. They also create highly useful interpretations of forecast data from survey respondents. Among the highlights in this report are the significant rise in global cruise and ferry vessel calls, the shortage of trucks and truck drivers in several regions of the world, and the confirmation (and quantification) that larger vessel and higher call sizes do not go hand-in-hand with higher terminal productivity in all regions. The full report, which is available to responding IAPH members, includes breakdowns by cargo segment (container, dry bulk, tankers/gas carriers and general cargo), cruise and passenger as well as regional analyses. We urge IAPH members to actively participate and answer the seven straight-forward same questions next February, which will be supplemented with annual questions on land use, future investments and innovation. Copies will be made available to regular members committing to their participation in the next survey. To do so, email [email protected].
