11
May
14:02
Container ship orders zero in first quarter
No new orders were placed for container ships in the first quarter for the first three-month period since Q2 2009, according to international shipping association Bimco.
The lack of orders reflects the “….very poor” market conditions and the fact 2.2 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) were ordered in 2015, the second-largest annual volume of containership capacity ever ordered after 2007. “The one-sided focus on cutting costs per…
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