News / Maersk decision to lay-up a Triple-E is 'a wake-up call' to the industry, says Drewry

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Maersk Line’s decision last week to lay-up one of its 18,000 teu flagships is “good news for the industry”, Drewry Maritime Advisors said today.

Other ocean carriers are likely to follow the market leader and mothball more surplus ships, .

The move to idle the Triple-E vessel followed a profit warning from the Maersk group which lowered its full-year profit forecast for the container division by $600m to “around $1.6bn. It blamed freight rates which “significantly deteriorated”, especially on its main Asia-Europe ...