b'14American Journal ofTransportation ajot.com(MOREcontinued from tobecompletedin2027andGlobal terminal operators equity-based throughput league table, 2024 page 10) 2029 respectively, giving London TheportsconnectivityGateway the capacity to continue2024was significantly enhanced ear- on its box traffic growth curve. Equity-adjustedVolume growth/declineShare of global port lier this year when it was addedRankingthroughput, 2024vS.2023 throughput, 2024totheroutingoftheGeminiH Andlingi nnovATion 2024 Operator (mteu) (%) (%)Cooperations(astrategicalli- Meanwhile,innovationis1 PSA International 67.3 7.3% 7.2%ancebetweenoceanshippingplayingakeypartinLondon lines Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd)Gatewaysdevelopment,DP2 China Merchants Port 61.2 8.4% 6.6%Asia-Europe service. World announcing last month that3 China COSCO SHIPPING 54.2 0.9% 5.8%it was investing 170 million in4 APM Terminals 53.2 8.9% 5.7%c APAciTye xPAnsion cutting-edgecontainerhandling LondonGatewaysexpan- technology, marking a major step5 Hutchison Ports 46.2 7.0% 5.0%sion centers on the constructionforward in the digitalization and6 MSC Group 44.4 5.2% 4.8%oftwonewshippingberthsautomation of port operations. 7 DP World 44.3 0.0% 4.8%takingthetotaltosixwhileThenewBoxbayEmpty a second rail terminal recentlySuperstacksystemrepresentssubtotal 370.9 5.5% 40.0%entered service to accommodatearevolutionaryapproachtoOther GTOs 85.5 18.6% 9.2%more ship-to train box transfers,handling empty containers, andGlobal/international operators456.4 7.7% 49.2%highlightingitsmulti-modalwhichhasalreadybeensuc- totalfreight focus. cessfully trialed at DP WorldsSource: Drewrys Global Container Terminal Operators Annual Review and Forecast 2025/26By the end of the decade,Jebel Ali Port in Dubai.thefullquaysidestretchingUsingHighBayStorage(GATEScontinued fromthe country, even with the verywas to not only the box busi-morethan2.5kminlength(HBS) technology, it will storepage 10) cost-efficient double stack, thatnessbuttheoveralleconomic willbeabletosimultaneously20- and 40-foot empty contain- thePortofLosAngelesiscost cant compare to moving itwell-being of the world. When receivesixvessels,eachmoreers up to 16 tiers high inside athelargestinNorthAmericaall water. the COVID-19 pandemic struck than 400 metres long, and boastfully enclosed, automated facil- and even with the tariffs has ait looked like container shipping Europestallestship-to-shoreity.Theresultisadramaticchance to eclipse the 10 millionA d eePerd ive inTo THe would dive even deeper than it cranes, taller than the Big Benimprovementinyardcapacity,TEUmark,nottoomuchoffus-c HinAT rAdew Ar didduringtheGreatReces-clock tower. safety and efficiencyoperatingthe 2021 highwater throughputAnotherrelatedtrendsion[in2008-2009around Last year, London Gatewaylike a giant vending machine forof10.7millionTEUstheimpacting terminals not only in9% of the global TEU volume brought a fourth berth into service,containers, the group noted. cost-centriclogicbehindtheNorth America but around thedisappeared],butitdidnt the first to be powered entirely byBybringingthisingeniousshift in TEUs volumes is clear.world is the US-China decou- happen. For reasons as Murphy electricitydemonstratingDPdesign to London Gateway, we areIf you look at the mainland ofpling in trade. US-China trade,explained at the CONECT con-Worlds net zero objectives. introducing advanced technologythe US, 75% of the populationprior to the heating up of theference,Somethinghap-Thanks to the opening ofthat will unlock faster throughputisclosertotheEastorGulftradewarwiththetariffblitzpened. God bless the American the all-electric fourth berth lastandcontributetohighersafetycoast. And so that translates intoandotherTrumpadministra- consumer. You saved the rest of year and the new Gemini Coop- standards,enthusedSultanwater miles [that] are geometri- tion actions, was the wellspringus, because for some reason you eration callings at London Gate- Ahmed bin Sulayem. cally less costly than land miles,of TEU growth. Alan Murphy,refuse to save your money, you way earlier in 2025, throughputInstalled at Berth 4, the ful- whether its rail or truck Cer- the founder and CEO of Singa- spent it. According to Murphy, attheporthasrisensubstan- ly-electricstackercranescantainly,Californiahasmassivepore-basedSea-Intelligence,aAmericanconsumersusually tially,aspokespersonforDPhandle containers with precision,populationcenters,butforthecontainer shipping analysis andspend 68% of their disposable World told AJOT. (MOREcontinued onfreight thats going to go all thedata firm, pointed out just how(GATEScontinued on Berths 5 and 6 are expectedpage 18) way, or most of the way acrossimportanttheUS-Chinatradepage 18)'