Pusan Port delegates return

Pusan Port Sales delegates from Pusan city, Pusan Regional Maritime Affairs and Fisheries and the presidents of every container terminals in Pusan came home to Korea on Dec. 5 after their port sales tour for shippers and shipping companies in Singapore and Hong Kong.
The delegates pitched Pusan four times in the Asian regional headquarters of foreign shipping companies and shippers between Dec. 1 and 5. They explained how Pusan Port has fully recovered from the trucker’s strike and typhoon Maemi, asking shipping companies and shippers to continue to use Pusan as a port of choice. Especially, the delegates paid careful attention to explaining the volume incentive rule introduced this December in order to attract transshipment cargoes to Korea as well as port facilities and stevedoring facilities expansion plans.
In a meeting with the attendance of worldwide shipping companies such as Maersk-Sealand, MSC, APL, P&O Nedlloyd, OOCL, COSCO and China Shipping and other shippers, shipping companies requested the limit of the volume incentive be reduced lower than 200,000 TEU annually for small and medium sized shipping companies to enjoy favors as well. They also stated that annually raised stevedoring rates and off-dock and transshipment cargo shuttle fares had to be revised as soon as possible and foreign shipping companies without dedicated container terminals had to be allowed access specific container terminals. On top of that, the overly complicated berth operation system with one berth per operating company had to be changed and not-on-time founded transshipment cargoes needed a solution. To elevate port productivity, Pusan really needs to be equipped with stevedoring and terminal facilities. The temporary 24-hour operation of the terminal stevedoring system also needed to continue, the foreign shipping companies pointed out.