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原文传递 Barges On European Waterways Stymied By Congestion

题名：	Barges On European Waterways Stymied By Congestion
正文语种：	eng
作者：	DAVID MURRAY
摘要：	European barge operators are in-creasingly "without hope" that worsening barge congestion can be addressed, ac-cording to a leading logistics publication.The online transit publication The Loadstar reported June 28 that north-ern Europe's "beleaguered" barge sector is dealing with increasing congestion and delays extending into days. The situation has been ongoing for years, with several remedies proposed at Europe's busiest ports, such as Antwerp and Rotterdam.The Loadstar quoted a freight for-warder as blaming a surge of ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) from Asia for rising wait times for barges. Contargo,the region's largest barge operator, an-nounced that delays at Rotterdam had climbed from 66 to 89 hours, with Ant-werp's hovering at the 37-hour mark, but added that since 2017, delays of more than a week had been commonplace.One analyst said the problem was that,while there were mitigating circumstanc-es, barge operators were also making cur-rent difficulties worse by refusing to work to-gether to optimize limited terminal berthing space, which has not kept up with demand.
出版年：	2021
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	135
期：	15