According to BIMCO’s Dry Bulk Terminals Vetting Report 2018, the best performing port is Szczecin in Poland. The report gathered data from 144 ships covering 381 terminals.
97% of the reports were rated as average or better, giving an average rating of 3.6 out of five. The result is marginally better than last year’s results. In fact, only four reports were rated as “poor”, something that shows an encouraging trend, Aron Sorensen, Head of Maritime Technology and Regulation at BIMCO, said.
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The number of reports contributed to BIMCO increased by 52% to 916 in total, rising the number of ports covered by 102. However, the reports come from a small number of companies, which partly explains a somewhat skewed geographical spread of the report.
These are the top five ports, according to BIMCO:
- Szczecin, Poland;
- Quebec, Canada;
- Newcastle, Australia;
- Gladstone, Australia;
- Ciénaga, Colombia.
In addition, the report indicated improved communication between the terminals and the ships, but adequate language skills are still a problem in some locations.
The survey also analyzed waste handling, and the number of ships experiencing a terminal’s refusal to collect garbage or exorbitant prices to do so, which is too high.
Finally, another point of concern was that the setting of gangways was impossible in 11% of all cases, restricting the access to and from the ship.
This is clearly unacceptable and must be addressed as a safety matter
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