After running various online polls recently, PTI can reveal the results that you voted for on a range of questions varying from the ideal model of port governance to where the world’s biggest port will be in the next 50 years.
What is the best solution for congestion?
Inspired by the recent congestion issues on the US West Coast and in the Philippines, we asked what the best solution is for the growing issue of congestion.
Offering a multiple choice of more yard space, more automation, more ship-to-shore cranes and less unscheduled calls, the results exhibited an immensely close-run race between more automation and less unscheduled calls, with unscheduled calls edging the vote with 40.2% to more automation’s 38.5%.
The result of this poll exhibits how automation is increasingly turning out to be the port panacea, whilst mass, unscheduled calls remain the prominent issue for terminals.
The US West Coast has struggled with labour issues as well as the capacities of mega-ships
What is the best model for port governance?
Port governance takes on many different forms in countries and regions across the world and can be defined by political ideology, social convention or simply which model is the most practical.
This is a pertinent topic at present, especially with the unique Indian situation where the country’s ‘big 12’ nationalised ports function alongside private entities. However, murmurs of discontent have arisen recently regarding the corporatisation of ports in India.
In a choice of whether ports should be nationalised, privatised or governed with a mixed structure, with elements of a given port state-owned and elements open to the private-sector, 18.4% of you voted that nationalisation was the best policy, 34.7% voted that privatisation was the optimum model, yet 46.9% voted that a mixed structure is the best model for port governance.
This result may be of interest to Vietnam, which is currently undergoing a program of mass port privatisation in the hope it will energise its state of trade.
In 50 years, where will the biggest port be?
The world is in awe of the sheer size of the ports and throughput levels in Asia, and most notably China, yet where does the long-term future for the crown of the world’s biggest port lay?
The Port of Shanghai is currently the largest port in the world. Source: Daily Mail
The Port of Shanghai looks to be growing from strength-to-strength, yet with the Chinese economy stuttering, and the rise of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations, who are predicted to be the globe’s next economic powerhouses, where the next port will be remains unclear.
Famously, the Middle East sees no boundaries to the mega-structures it can create, backed by its immense wealth and pioneering vision, and growing Western African countries such as Nigeria could also develop into major trading nations in the next few decades.
However, the results we received were unequivocal. Only 9.7% of the PTI audience voted for Europe, and 12.3% and 13.6% voted for the Americas and Africa, respectively.
This means that Asia took a huge 64.3% of the vote with the might of China and the splendour and innovation in the Middle East proving too strong.
Current vote: How big will the largest container ship be in ten years?
You can take part in the current vote by visiting the PTI homepage. Our current question asks you how big ships are going to get in the next decade.
After Maersk Line CEO Soren Skou recently told the JOC that 25,000 TEU vessels were possible, but not practical, do you think the industry will act against Skou’s prediction and build bigger, or have to plateau after issues such as congestion which have already affected ports due to mega-capacities? Vote now.
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The MSC Oscar is currently the world's biggest containership. Source: MSC
Keep your eyes peeled for the next PTI poll which will be coming soon.
If you or your company would like to do a poll in association with PTI, please email: mking@porttechnology.org for more information
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