High-cubes a growing phenomenon

21/10/2013

Is it the end of the teu as a measure of container volumes? This interesting analysis from Drewry shows increasing demand for 40ft high-cube containers, which add capacity without adding cost for shippers. But, with 50% of equipment expected to be 40ft HCs this year, it is starting to become problematic for the shipping lines, which lose capacity, and also can make cargo volume analysis meaningless, as the 13% bigger containers are measured as two teu, like the standard 40ft ...

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Michael Kusuplos
October 21, 2013 at 2:59 pm
Then maybe its time for the carriers to recalculate the way they measure containers. After all the container industry is well over 40 years old, so maybe its time they make the changes to recognize the changes that occurred during this time?

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- Michael Kusuplos
  October 21, 2013 at 3:57 pm
  Martyn: Agree that it’s a problem but not as big as one would think that it is. Consider that vessel stow plan is now done with computers and that the computer can determine the container size by the container number. All they, the carriers, have to do is right a couple of lines into their programs to determine the box size when the run the stow plan program.
  
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Martyn Benson
October 21, 2013 at 3:15 pm
This is considered news? The hicube trend has been continuing and growing for as long as I can remember- the mid 1980’s at least!

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