Last week Thursday saw the release of the latest IAPH World Ports Tracker report to ports participating in the survey. Professors Theo Notteboom and Thanos Pallis of the IAPH Risk and Resilience Committee compiled a detailed 85-page analysis from the responses of 77 ports from eight port regions covering the world. The main highlights pointed towards the end of the global supply chain crunch, a significant fall in vessel call sizes in most regions, the continued resurgence of both cruise and passenger ferry markets and the interesting pattern of global and regional investment planning and land use. With annual questions posed to responding ports on this last, crucial subject, the results revealed a positive investment sentiment among ports. Planned investments – also on sustainability – are either proceeding ahead or are only slightly delayed due to the pandemic in most cases. Land use plans are also promising, with 42% of the responding ports intending to devote more land to logistics and distribution service activities and 31% of ports planning on using land for non-fossil energy production. The full report with a detailed analysis was made available to ports that shared their data through the survey. For a synopsis of the results, check out the Q4 2022 dashboards here. The next World Ports Tracker survey outreach will occur mid-May. If your port is interested to share its data (and receive a full analysis report in return), please contact Fabienne Van Loo at [email protected].
Indication of major changes in port land use planning in 2023
