News / KG demise offers a glimmer of hope for container shipping overcapacity crisis

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If recent comments from container ship owners are anything to go by, it appears there is growing optimism that the worst of the overcapacity situation in the liner ship[ping industry could be drawing to an end.

Despite the fact that a slew of ultra-large container ships are currently undergoing construction and some due to be delivered this year – beginning with the first units in Maersk’s Triple-E class – there is also a growing sense that the overcapacity of vessels in ...