Between January and July of this year, the containerized cargo market showed 'a decrease of -5.5%', due to the behavior of the Container segment, which recorded 'a drop of -5.1% in the number of Units and -5.6% in the TEU volume, standing slightly above 1.7 million, "the AMT revealed.

 

In the report covering the seven months of 2018, AMT points out that such a market segment "behaves negatively in most ports, with Leixões being the only exception": the northern port, already used to successive records (and out of a semester), grew by 1%, "corresponding to +3,5 thousand TEU"

 

It should be recalled that, analyzing the period January-June, the northern port had also presented against the general trend in this segment, showing resilience to global adversity. The AMT explains that the global performance of this segment is intrinsically linked to the performance of the Port of Sines: the Alentejo port 'naturally conditions the global behavior by' losing '80 thousand TEUs (-7.5%), which is also relevant the decrease registered in Lisbon of -20 thousand TEU. Figueira da Foz and Setúbal 'lost' respectively 2.4 and 1.6 thousand TEU (-17.1% and -1.8%).

 

Following this result, AMT says, "Sines now has a share of 57.1% (1.2 percentage points more than 2017), Leixões about 21.4%, Lisbon about 15.6%, Setúbal slightly above 5.2% and Figueira da Foz almost 0.7% ".

 

Source, Revista Cargo.