generation of vessels requires even greater reach (22 23 containers), and ports are hard-pressed byshipping lines to invest in this shore-side equipment or be lanes. excluded from major East-West trade With the arrival of larger vessels, the previously largest vessels are being redeployed from the voluminous East-West routes with advanced ports to smaller less voluminous ports on the North-South routes. The North South routes tend to serve developing countries' ports that are hard pressed to invest in cranes of even greater outreach but risk relegation to feeder port status if they do not follow.