Container counterfactuals: spot market vs time-charters
Spotting the time-charter correction…
By Mike Wackett
More detail is emerging on the significant indirect costs incurred by Japan’s K Line, MOL and NYK when they merged their container businesses into Ocean Network Express (ONE) last year.
A $227m “charter party modification” payment related to the early termination of the charter parties of seven vessels which were no longer required by the new entity.
It was a win-win for non-operating containership owner Seaspan Corporation, which said that after finishing the charters on 31 March and being compensated, it had successfully fixed all seven ships to other customers, reflecting the ...
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Martyn Benson
May 02, 2019 at 3:03 pmHow many senior and top managers have been relieved of their posts after the ONE debacle? Yes, it’s easy to play the Monday morning quarter-back but these stories of wrong calculations, forgotten provisions and oversights (with seemingly only good news claims a year ago) are staggering. Only government ministers seem to have less accountability.