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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 ...

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  • Ricky Forman

    January 05, 2015 at 3:54 pm

    I 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 pm

    Thanks 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 pm

      Hi Jiawewi Li,

      China International Marine Containers and Singamas are by far and away the two most important container manufacturers.

      Kind regards,
      Gavin

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