News / Chronic shortage shines a light on carrier under-investment in box fleets

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10/12/2020

The current acute shortage of boxes on many tradelanes has exposed the lack of investment by carriers in their container fleets.

Drewry estimates that by the end of the year the global stock of containers will be 42.4 million teu, down 1% on 2019.

In comparison, Alphaliner ...

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