Opposition builds for final hearing on US plan to tax Chinese box ship calls
US importers and shippers await the outcome of the final hearing on the new administration’s ...
Credit VesselFinder.com
By Mike Wackett
Ocean carriers face ’Hobson’s choice’ on the containership charter market: agreeing to owners’ hugely inflated daily hire rates or risking losing the vessel to a competitor.
Hapag-Lloyd has just agreed a three-month charter commencing in January of the 4,253 teu Synergy Oakland for an eye-watering $130,000 a day from Greek non-operating owner Euroseas.
The carrier’s in-house charter desk will no doubt have baulked at a charter rate some $50,000 a day above the current bull market, but was clearly unable to fix ...
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