Backhaul blues and a gradual decline in liner schedule reliability
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By Mike Wackett
The 4,546 teu 2006-built Viktoria Wulff (ex MSC Firenze) has become the youngest containership to be sold for scrap as panamax owners cut their losses and abandon employment hopes in a hopelessly depressed market.
Previously the record for the youngest boxship sold for recycling stood at 13 years old.
The 10-year-old Viktoria Wulff, built at Gdynia, had been chartered by MSC and deployed on the carrier’s Asia-Australasia services.
Brokers report that its German owners obtained $303 per LDT from breakers for the vessel “as ...
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