News / Idle containership fleet grows a little – but emissions are soaring

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The end of the early peak season and a truncated US east coast port strike has led to a lull in active tonnage in the global liner fleet, with Alphaliner pointing to an increase in the number of idle vessels over the past fortnight, to a total 245,000 teu.

“Alphaliner’s latest fortnightly survey, on 21 October, tallied 71 ships with a total capacity of more than 245,000 teu as commercially idle,” this week’s research note says, adding that the idled fleet ...