Red Sea crisis forces Maersk to increase capacity over strategy limit
Maersk Line appears to have temporarily abandoned its strategy of maintaining capacity at no more ...
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By Mike Wackett
Recent forecasts from ocean carriers that a supply-demand equilibrium will be reached next year are “optimistic”, says Alphaliner.
It says newbuild deliveries with 1.6m teu of cellular capacity will aggravate a supply overhang that is expected to be carried over from the fourth quarter of this year.
Alphaliner’s current idle containership survey records a two-year low of 147 vessels, with a capacity of 275,897 teu, in lay-up, but it warned that the number would soar in the final three months of the year, with idle ...
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