The business of international auto shipping has apparently been going strong in Spain’s biggest port, the Port of Algeciras Bay, as reports have been coming in of cars moving through this ports car transport facilities in increasing volumes in the first part of 2010. The Port of Algeciras is in a strategic geographical position along the north shore of the Strait of Gibraltar that makes it a perfect crossroad for shipping services between Northern Europe, West Africa, America and Asia. The Port of Algeciras has apparently also been at work improving the road infrastructure connecting the port facilities with all of the regions surrounding the port, so moving the cars inland or bringing them to the ships, is going to be easier for car hauling services tasked with delivering the vehicles.
There were no concrete numbers on the increase in the volume of cars being moved through the Port of Algeciras Bay in the first quarter of 2010. We can get an idea of the increase by looking at the total increase in traffic at the port during the first quarter though, which went up by over 6 percent. At the same time, container volumes in the port went up by over 15 percent, so you can get an idea of the increase in the number of vehicles moving through the Port of Algeciras during the first few months of the year. The port authorities and firms doing business in the Port of Algeciras obviously are hoping that they keep seeing sunny skies on the horizon and activity at the port continue to increase as we travel further into 2010. We second that feeling and hope that traffic and business in the Port of Algeciras is breaking records in a few months time.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Allowing Car Carrying Vessels to Enter Port, Keeping the ports open for car transport
The size of each new generation of car carriers implemented by the international car shipping industry to conduct car delivery services to markets around the world makes it necessary for one very important sector of the world’s port industry, and by association the car shipping industry, to constantly be striving for new ideas and ways of thinking, is the dredging industry. The dredging industry has stayed reasonably strong through the past two years of rough seas for international shipping and the business of delivering cars to market. There has been some consolidation in the dredging industry, as there has been in the business of taking cars to market, but the companies that have emerged appear to be stronger than ever and have begun investing in the future at a rate that could indicate the industry is going to grow in the years ahead.
The vessels used to transport cars to market are probably only going to increase in size in the future, so the job of keeping the waterways leading into the ports of the world is most likely going to be very important in the job of keeping the cars moving in the century of the environment. The increase in size of each generation of new vessels used to transport cars to markets means that the draft of each new generation is often bigger and thus the channels of the ports that service these larger vessels has to constantly be increased in order to allow for passage of large vessels.
Is there a limit to the size that car carrying vessels can be? This is going to be an interesting question, because many companies that ship cars are certainly ordering ships that carry more cars per transit in an effort to reduce costs. Will there be a point when the size of the ships used to transport the cars to market has reached a point that ship designers won’t want to go beyond? This is probably a very likely scenario in the future, for there must be engineering limits to all things. Just what the limits on the size of the vessels used to transport cars is going to be the interesting question? The vessels used today can transport thousands of vehicles at a time and it’s hard to fathom how they’ll be able to transport more cars on a ship, but they’ll think of something.
http://www.worldcargonews.com/htm/nf20100408.772108.htm
The vessels used to transport cars to market are probably only going to increase in size in the future, so the job of keeping the waterways leading into the ports of the world is most likely going to be very important in the job of keeping the cars moving in the century of the environment. The increase in size of each generation of new vessels used to transport cars to markets means that the draft of each new generation is often bigger and thus the channels of the ports that service these larger vessels has to constantly be increased in order to allow for passage of large vessels.
Is there a limit to the size that car carrying vessels can be? This is going to be an interesting question, because many companies that ship cars are certainly ordering ships that carry more cars per transit in an effort to reduce costs. Will there be a point when the size of the ships used to transport the cars to market has reached a point that ship designers won’t want to go beyond? This is probably a very likely scenario in the future, for there must be engineering limits to all things. Just what the limits on the size of the vessels used to transport cars is going to be the interesting question? The vessels used today can transport thousands of vehicles at a time and it’s hard to fathom how they’ll be able to transport more cars on a ship, but they’ll think of something.
http://www.worldcargonews.com/htm/nf20100408.772108.htm
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