Podcast: Unlocking port performance by rethinking towage

Can towage help unlock port performance?

Port infrastructure is facing unprecedented pressure. Global shipping fleets are growing in vessel size, complexity and number. The margins in which to manage these vessels are becoming more challenging. Extreme weather events, trade protectionism and conflict is increasingly disrupting schedules.

Port congestion is at higher levels than during Covid.

It’s not great reading and it’s a shifting landscape to respond to. Traditional approaches have focused on building for capacity and to alleviate constraints. These efforts are important, but what if there is another way? What if it starts with rethinking towage?

In the latest conversation on Lloyd’s List The Shipping Podcast, Svitzer CEO Kasper Friis Nilaus shares how optimising marine operations, improving cross-stakeholder coordination, and leveraging innovative tug designs, like Svitzer‘s proprietary TRAnsverse tug, can directly improve productivity and improve operating margins.

🎧 Listen to the full episode via the link in the comments below and contact our commercial team to learn how we can uplift your maritime capability and unlock port performance today.