Disconnect: time-charters and the freight market
Time to jump off?
Owners of smaller containerships, with limited exposure to the volatile deepsea east-west trades, are enjoying increases in daily hire rates and enquiries for time extensions.
According to the latest Alphaliner report. the container charter market is “evolving in a split way”, with vessels of 3,000 teu and under ...
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Comment on this article
Itsik
May 17, 2018 at 5:12 amHi
My name is Itsik Shaul from Nito tech Ltd Israel. I’m interesting to rent a small ship (capacity of 10-15 containers ) that will perform a round trip from Mersin port
To Israel port. We need the service start immediately for few months
Thanks
Itsik Shaul
Nito Tech ltd