Returning to Suez and rates: the shipping contract conundrum
Shippers negotiating new contracts this year face a major rates dilemma as the maritime industry ...
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 teu.
Benefits of what is now referred to as the ‘mid-size’ vessel range include greater flexibility in deployment and the ability to call at more ports around the world.
Alphaliner points to the ...
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