MSC switches bigger box ships to higher-paying trades in 'landmark' move
MSC has switched “essentially all” its megamax vessels from Far East-to-North Europe services to the ...
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There was something profoundly weird about The Loadstar’s leading news items yesterday. They appeared totally at odds with one another.
On the one hand, it now appears that shipping giants MSC and CMA CGM are building vessels that will nearly reach 24,000 teu, leading Alphaliner to create not one but two new asset classes of box ship – the Megamax-24 for the 23,500 teu vessels the two lines have under construction; and the Megamax-23 class of 18,000-21,000 teu.
Anything from 14,000-18,000 teu ...
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Andrew Craig-Bennett
November 10, 2017 at 12:52 pmA very very interesting article, as is the interview with Tommy Liu which it links to.
Of course, I am happy to see this as evidence in support of what I have been saying in my column in “Splash 24/7”, but seriously I hope a lot of people will take this to heart.