News / Déjà vu as major ocean carriers scramble for tonnage and containers

MSC Orion Photo: Vesselfinder

Tight availability of boxships and equipment, last seen during Covid, is replaying as more and more vessels reroute round the Cape of Good Hope.

Linerlytica’s latest report, issued yesterday, says the capacity of boxships diverted to the Cape route will pass the 5m teu mark within weeks, as avoiding the threat of Houthi attacks continues to absorb record newbuilding deliveries.

Yesterday it was reported that the Houthis claimed to have attacked the MSC Orion, in the Arabian Sea, as well as two ...