Cargo Business Newswire

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Maersk struggles to find ports to fully load massive Triple-Es

Shipping giant Maersk Line is having trouble finding places to load up its new Triple-E mega container ships to capacity since only two berths in Asia have the appropriate infrastructure.

The company will have to wait until the end of 2014 to begin to sail the world's largest ships with full loads, since central European harbors are also currently unable to handle fully loading the 18,270-TEU vessels.

"Right now there are only two harbors in our network, Yantian and Tanjung Pelepas, that can handle fully loading Triple-E ships," said Thomas Riber Knudsen, the head of Maersk Line's Asia and Pacific region. "At the moment we are only able to load about 16,000 containers on the ships."

For more of the Copenhagen Post story: cphpost.dk