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By Mike Wackett
MOL president Koichi Muto has thrown down the gauntlet to rival container lines in his New Year message by confirming the Japanese transport group’s strategy to upgrade its boxship fleet with an order for 20,000teu ultra-large container vessels.
Admitting that MOL’s container division “is showing a significant deficit for this fiscal term”, which ends on 31 March, Mr Muto announced a “counter-offensive year”. He said: “I think many of you may be worried about our containership business.And the fact is, in ...
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Ricky Forman
January 05, 2015 at 3:54 pmI would expect more Carriers to scale up and order the largest possible vessels in an attempt to reduce unit costs. Carriers mentalities unfortunately for the industry don’t change, thus neither will the outcomes, so many more loss making years to come (currently masked by cheaper bunkers). Vessels will be built to the maximum size ports allow them to be, but no doubt ports will then be re-developed to handle 25k teu vessels, then 30k and so on until the market pops. What happens to the market at this juncture?
Jiawei Li
April 13, 2015 at 3:31 pmThanks for a very interesting and informative article here. Its good to know that trade between East and West is booming and that container ships are getting bigger by the day to handle these exports! I just hope that African ports will adapt to the size of these 20k and 30k teu container ships.
Can someone tell me who are the manufacturers of ISO containers – 20′ and 40′? Names of the top 10 manufacturers globally is what I’m looking for.
Awaiting your favorable reply.
Thanks
Jiawei Li
Gavin van Marle
April 13, 2015 at 4:52 pmHi Jiawewi Li,
China International Marine Containers and Singamas are by far and away the two most important container manufacturers.
Kind regards,
Gavin