News / Zim to hand back transpacific workhorse as carriers review expensive charters

Zim Bermuda Credit Vesselfinder.

Containership owners are playing hardball with ocean carriers on fixture extensions for larger tonnage they have locked into deployment on alliance network loops.

And this could result in some carriers walking away from highly inflated time-charter extensions, leaving cargo commitments uncovered.

Shipbroker Braemar ACM reports that the 8,814 teu Northern Jasper, which, according to eeSea data, is one of 10 vessels deployed on Zim’s ZCP, Maersk’s TP10 and MSC’s Amberjack Asia to US east coast Panama loop, has been extended for just ...