News / Fears for charter market as the idle fleet grows with more mega-boxships arriving

16/09/2015

The capacity of the global liner fleet now stands at over 20m teu, up one million teu since the beginning of the year, reflecting the delivery of 152 new ships.

They iclude 21 mega-vessels of 15,000 teu and above and, according to Alphaliner, this exponential growth ...

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