Mr. Douglas A. Tilden

摘要

In his keynote address, Doug Tilden, chairman of the Ports America Group, the nation's largest terminal operator, warned that ports are shaping up to be a major chokepoint in the next decade. Based on North American maritime annual container volume across the top 10 gateway ports, Ports America predicts that demand will exceed available capacity at most, if not all, of those ports. Consider the Long Beach/Los Angeles gateway. In 2004, the port handled a little over 13 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units, the standard measure for in-termodal shipping containers). By 2020, Ports America projects, volume could swell to almost 60 million TEUs. But Long Beach has not been able to add capacity for five years and still hasn't cracked the. code for securing requisite approvals from the regulatory authorities.