by Dirk Visser

Senior Shipping Consultant and Managing Editor

Dynamar

"The Times They Are A Changin'…" And so has indispensable feedering over the last decade, one might tune in. The adage that the capability of a port decides upon the size of the feeder ship is still true - thus such vessels have grown in size over time. The bigger the mainline ship, the fewer ports of call?

Not really, but where call sizes increase, service frequencies come down. Hence an ever larger number of feeders are swarming the mainliners, increasing their capacities if and when the destination ports allow.

But do we really need more feeder ships?

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