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Sydney overtakes Melbourne again as Australia's biggest box port
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SYDNEY has again overtaken Melbourne as Australia's biggest container port, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) Container Stevedoring Monitoring report 2016-17.
Overall Australian box volume through its ports grew 3.7 per cent year on year to 7.2 million TEU through 2017, the highest ever achieved, says the report, posted by Russia's port.today news portal.
Over the past 10 years, these two ports have been topping the rating of Australia's container ports, with Melbourne always being a little ahead.
In 2014-15 Sydney topped Melbourne, only to lose its crown the following year. And now Sydney regained its top spot, having handled a record 2.5 million TEU, up 4.8 per cent year on year, against Melbourne's 2.4 million TEU, up 2.6 per cent.
They were followed by Brisbane with 1.2 million TEU, up 6.4 per cent, the country's biggest gainer, driven by increasing Queensland imports and agricultural exports. Fremantle surpassed 700,000 TEU, but slipped 0.4 per cent year on year while Adelaide with more than 400,000 TEU was up 2.9 per cent.
Despite volume increases overall, stevedoring revenue declined one per cent for a second year while sales increased 1.6 per cent from other services terminals offer.
Per box revenue continued to fall, down two per cent overall to US$169.7 per TEU, while stevedoring revenue fell 4.5 per cent to $138.8 per TEU.
This has stevedoring revenue at a level which is about a quarter less than a decade ago in real terms, said the ACCC report.
DP World and Patrick Terminals continued to dominate Australia's stevedoring market, holding 45 per cent and 44 per cent market shares accordingly. Traditionally, they shared the market evenly in all container ports other than at Adelaide, where DP World Adelaide and later Flinders Adelaide have operated the only terminal.
But with Hong Kong's Hutchison starting operations at Brisbane in January 2013 and at Sydney in November 2013 and Manila's ICTSI completing its fully automated Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT) at Melbourne in December 2016, there are now three competing stevedores at each of the three largest container ports in Australia and the combined share of DP World and Patrick is starting to decrease, this year it was the lowest ever recorded.
Australia is served by smaller north-south routes, with smaller trade volumes and ships. But cascading is having an impact, the trend of deploying larger ships on the north-south run, which are still too small for east-west trade lanes.
Thus, the average size ships calling at Melbourne is up 4.5 per cent a year over 14 years, rising to 3,892 TEU. The biggest to call at Sydney was Maersk's 8,530-TEU Seroja Enam while 8,000-TEUers were the biggest to call at Melbourne and Adelaide.
Overall Australian box volume through its ports grew 3.7 per cent year on year to 7.2 million TEU through 2017, the highest ever achieved, says the report, posted by Russia's port.today news portal.
Over the past 10 years, these two ports have been topping the rating of Australia's container ports, with Melbourne always being a little ahead.
In 2014-15 Sydney topped Melbourne, only to lose its crown the following year. And now Sydney regained its top spot, having handled a record 2.5 million TEU, up 4.8 per cent year on year, against Melbourne's 2.4 million TEU, up 2.6 per cent.
They were followed by Brisbane with 1.2 million TEU, up 6.4 per cent, the country's biggest gainer, driven by increasing Queensland imports and agricultural exports. Fremantle surpassed 700,000 TEU, but slipped 0.4 per cent year on year while Adelaide with more than 400,000 TEU was up 2.9 per cent.
Despite volume increases overall, stevedoring revenue declined one per cent for a second year while sales increased 1.6 per cent from other services terminals offer.
Per box revenue continued to fall, down two per cent overall to US$169.7 per TEU, while stevedoring revenue fell 4.5 per cent to $138.8 per TEU.
This has stevedoring revenue at a level which is about a quarter less than a decade ago in real terms, said the ACCC report.
DP World and Patrick Terminals continued to dominate Australia's stevedoring market, holding 45 per cent and 44 per cent market shares accordingly. Traditionally, they shared the market evenly in all container ports other than at Adelaide, where DP World Adelaide and later Flinders Adelaide have operated the only terminal.
But with Hong Kong's Hutchison starting operations at Brisbane in January 2013 and at Sydney in November 2013 and Manila's ICTSI completing its fully automated Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT) at Melbourne in December 2016, there are now three competing stevedores at each of the three largest container ports in Australia and the combined share of DP World and Patrick is starting to decrease, this year it was the lowest ever recorded.
Australia is served by smaller north-south routes, with smaller trade volumes and ships. But cascading is having an impact, the trend of deploying larger ships on the north-south run, which are still too small for east-west trade lanes.
Thus, the average size ships calling at Melbourne is up 4.5 per cent a year over 14 years, rising to 3,892 TEU. The biggest to call at Sydney was Maersk's 8,530-TEU Seroja Enam while 8,000-TEUers were the biggest to call at Melbourne and Adelaide.