NEWS & ANALYSISThey said it ...“Larger ships: The carriers have forced ports around the world to react to their business model of building larger and larger vessels. Five years ago, 8,000 TEU vessels calling on ports in the U.S. was an un-common event. Today vessels of up to 14,000 TEU of capacity are calling on the U.S. West Coast. The JOC has reported that these large vessels regularly generate 5,000 container moves per vessel call, and sometimes as many as 8,000 to 10,000 container moves. This large volume places a severe strain on terminal resources ... In the U.S., ports are spending tens of billions of dollars upgrading their ports in anticipation of larger vessels. The larger ships have come onto the market quicker than the ports can react by way of construction and upgrading, thereby, signi? cantly exacer-bating port congestion by unloading ever larger volumes of containers.”U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Commissioner William P. Doyle statement regarding port congestion.“We’ve learned that LNG really “The most signi