News / MSC redeploys 13,000 teu vessels onto secondary trades as new cascading phase begins

MSC is experimenting with new deployment options for its traditional 13,000 teu Asia-Europe workhorses as they are rapidly displaced on the route by deliveries of the ‘new normal’ lower unit cost 18,000-20,000 teu ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs).

Alphaliner reported today that several ocean carriers are exploring new route possibilities for redundant 13,000 teu vessels and noted that MSC is starting to send ships of this size to India, West Africa and the South American west coast.

The obvious cascade strategy for surplus ...