Rotterdam Container Growth to Outpace Rivals

Terminal will achieve higher utilization rates over next six years, McKinsey says The port of Rotterdam will grow container traffic faster than its north European rivals over the next six years and its terminals will achieve higher utilization rates, according to a report by McKinsey. Europe’s largest container port will extend its lead in the Le Havre-Hamburg port range due to a combination of the consolidation of ocean carriers, the increasing size of ships and the presence of modern, easily accessible deep draft terminals, the consultants said. Rotterdam’s container traffic will reach 17 million 20-foot equivalent units in 2017 in a base case scenario of terminals working at average 78 percent utilization rate. Traffic totaled a record 11.9 million TEUs in 2011, an increase of 6 percent on the previous year.