Port Market Watch: ports, shipping and the used equipment market
Ports are the barometer of the container handling equipment market. A terminal expanding its berths, a strike shutting down a hub, a tariff shifting trade routes: every piece of news like this moves supply and demand for reachstackers, container handlers and terminal tractors — new and used alike.
In this section we follow the port industry and geopolitical news that actually matters to those who buy, sell and maintain these machines. We don’t repeat press releases: we read them from a market perspective, with the experience of nearly thirty years in the trade.
Egypt raised the toll. The ships are coming back anyway.
Transit surcharges up twelve points since 15 July, containerships at 12%. Maersk now sees a full return by 2026 — [...]
1.85m teu are queuing. Now nobody agrees on why.
1.85 million teu waiting outside ports, 4.55% of the world fleet. Maersk blames landside bottlenecks, analysts blame the Red Sea [...]
The bottleneck moved ashore. Ships can’t fix it.
1.7m teu idled by congestion, Far East volumes up 25% against 10% terminal capacity growth. When the constraint moves from [...]