Maritime Economic Logistics

TABLE 3

FROM:

The Time Factor in Liner Shipping Services

Theo E Notteboom

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Table 3. Deepsea call efficiency ratio for selected European ports (TEU handled as a percentage of two-way capacity of vessel called at port)

  2000 2003
Antwerp23.327.7
Hamburg20.322.7
Rotterdam1718.5
Bremerhaven14.319.5
Le Havre8.53.4

 Example: A deep sea call efficiency ratio of 25% involving a vessel of 5,000 TEU implies that a total of 2,500 TEU (loaded+discharged) are being handled in the port of call considered (5,000 times 2 times 0.25).

  Source: Antwerp Port Authority/Ocean Shipping Consultants

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