News / Scrapping and more charters account for 30-month low in idle containership fleet

29/05/2014

The number of laid-up containerships has fallen to a 30-month low, according to Alphaliner, which recorded just 146 ships of over 500teu idled as of May 19 – equating to capacity of 344,000teu,

This level represents just 1.9% of the world fleet, having shrunk by 56% ...

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