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News / Younger boxships on course for the breakers' yards, as idle fleet grows

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At the end of 2013, the number of container ships over 500teu in size in hot or cold lay-up stood at 235 – equivalent to 779,23 teu of capacity and 4.5% of the global cellular fleet.

And, according to analyst Alphaliner, the size of this mothballed ...

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