Last year was one of unprecedented challenge for the UK’s vehicle handling ports but, as Marcus Williams reports, they maintained operations, invested in infrastructure and are taking lessons forward for future trade
Last year was one of unprecedented challenge for the UK’s vehicle handling ports but, as Marcus Williams reports, they maintained operations, invested in infrastructure and are taking lessons forward for future trade. As with the finished vehicle ports in mainland Europe, UK-based ports and terminal operators faced disruption to normal throughput across the year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, like their counterparts across the Channel, port operators maintained services and even saw healthy numbers overall, in part because of increased traffic in Q4 ahead of the Brexit deadline.
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Nissan is benefitting from massive investment in infrastructure at the US port of Brunswick, alongside equipment makers moving from Savannah
While overall cargo volumes improved in the first half of the year at Antwerp-Bruges, vehicle throughput was down, significantly for second-hand vehicles
Along with strong Asian imports, increasing exports and new customers, Brunswick added vehicles and equipment diverted from Baltimore
