Large ports can adopt new cargo-handling systems while smaller ports still depend on older methods. Cargo must continue reaching both, so new and old practices coexist. London Gateway's development as a deep-water container port for London provides a late example, with its completion tentatively recalled as 2013. Continued port openings show why a firm date for the end of containerisation is misleading.
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Why containerisation has no single completion date
Container shipping spreads as individual ports acquire suitable facilities, so one opening date cannot describe a worldwide transition.