This summer the big ships in the P3 alliance will start operating on three different east-west tradelanes, and this means that massive volumes of Asian cargo will hit the European ports. This could have a serious impact on ports that are not geared to handle cargo volumes of this size, along with ports where intermodal cooperation is less than solid, says Drewry in a new analysis.
Meanwhile, Drewry expects that the other alliances - G6 and CKYHE - will begin to compete with P3, thus inserting even bigger ships on their services, a development that will result in fewer port calls for the alliances' ships, though it will bring larger cargo volumes, thus resulting in a much higher level of concentrated port activity at the same time.
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