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PORTOPIA: EU Terminal Productivity Indicator

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

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PORTOPIA objectives:

  • To support the European Port Industry with meaningful performance data to increase individual port and port transport system performance
  • To support policy formulation and monitor policy implementation
     
Data Publicly available?
Throughput volume at port level Yes, for most ports, available in PORTOPIA.
Throughput volume at terminal level No, terminals do not disclose their volumes.
Total ship calls per port Yes but imperfectly, not all ports report this publicly
Volume loaded and unloaded per ship No, this is proprietary to shipping lines (& terminals)
Ship's time at berth No, even though for ships with MS such data can be generated.
Size (m2) of terminal Imperfectly, for some terminals this is available, based on satellite images from Google, for others not, given the absence of visible 'boundaries' between terminals.
Quay length Yes, based on satellite images from Google.