News / 'Flexible' new mid-size containerships see carriers better prepared for crashing demand

13/11/2024

Emergent trends in shipbuilding demonstrate how carriers are building capacity management into their fleets at the design stage.

The longtime pre-pandemic trend of “bigger is better” appears to have been sidelined in favour of flexible neo-panamax vessels of between 14,000 and 16,000 ...

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