Asian ports need to be as efficient as Europe, shipping executive says

Hong Kong and other Asian ports are falling behind European port operators in terms of productivity, a senior shipping executive has warned.

Nicolas Sartini, group senior vice-president of Asia-Europe lines at French container line CMA CGM, said some European ports were 50 per cent more efficient at loading and unloading containers than those in Asia.

Sartini, who was in Hong Kong for the maiden call of the world's largest container ship, CMA CGM Marco Polo, said some Asian ports needed to "wake up and catch up with Europe".

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