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In two years the ability to the employed fleet of portacontainer in Mediterranean the Asia-Europe services/has grown of about 1,5 million teu
In the period full hands are delivered altogether to new ships container for an ability pairs to 2,6 million teu
March 20, 2012
In the past couple of years the majority of the new ability to hold generated from the deliveries of portacontainer of new construction is introduced in the line services that connect Asia with Europe. The quota the new ability to introduced containerized transport in the period has evidenced the society of marine mediation Braemar Seascope quantifying in 56% of the total on the routes Asia-Europe and the Asia-Mediterranean.
More precisely: in the past couple of years pairs to 2,6 million are delivered to new ships full hand container for a total ability teu. According to the surveys of Braemar Seascope, in 2010 and a 2011 new ability to hold for about 1,5 million teu it is introduced in Mediterranean the Asia-Europe services/.
In particular, in solo 2011 they are introduced in the services Asia-Europe 59 portacontainer post-Panamax of the medium ability to 11.500 teu, for a total almost 680,000 teu; moreover ulterior 15 new portacontainer of the medium ability to 8.400 teu are placed side by side to the ships used on the routes the Asia-Mediterranean and Asia-Mean East, in order more than 125.000 teu than ulterior new ability.
Braemar Seascope has found that another route that in the past couple of years has recorded an sensitive increase of the offered ability is that between Asia and the coast oriental of the South America, on which 40 new are introduced portacontainer, included the ships of elevated ability to container transport refrigerator they give beyond 7.000 teu that they are introduced by the Danish Maersk Line and the German Hamburg Süd.
An other route that has seen an sensitive increase of the ability is that western Asia-Africa, on which in the 2011 the first units of a series of 22 portacontainer are introduced 11 enclosed ships of new construction autoscaricanti from 4.500 teu planned specifically for this route.
Jonathan Roach, senior container analyst of Braemar Seascope, has explained that for next the three years ability is ulterior wait pairs to four million teu, between which about 150 new portacontainer of the nominal ability at least 10,000 teu.
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