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.
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 [...]