In last weeks MSC it has given a jolt to the orderbook world-wide of mega-portacontainer



If the shipowning society Danish Maersk Line with the recent orders for 20 new portacontainer of the unitary ability to 18.000 teu, that they constitute its entire pocketbook orders, is in the field of the line transport - of which world leader is having a fleet of the cargo ability pairs to 2,6 million container from 20 ' (teu) - the company that more than all believes in the potentialities of the mega-ships of new generation, the other companies to the summit of the field head mostly at the purchase of new ships of smaller abilities, comprised between 10.000 and 13.000 teu, but they order some in greater number.

Barry Rogliano Salles (BRS evidences the survey supplied from the Alphaliner service of the French agency) on the first one hundred carriers of the section of the containerized marine transport that he emphasizes as the Genevan Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), that it is the second one in ranking with an ability to the fleet in exercise almost 2,4 million teu, in last the two months he has ordered to 21 ships full hand container for an ability total of 217.000 slots and stops a orderbook of the consistency of 34 portacontainer for a total ability to 375.207 teu (included six portacontainer from 15.900 teu), that is 11.000 a medium ability to teu/ship. Moreover Alphaliner has emphasized as group MSC is considered the probable charter of three portacontenitori gives beyond 18.000 teu that recently they are ordered to the Daewoo South Korean ( on 10 July 2013).

The orderbook of Maersk Line it shows instead a produced total ability to 354.011 teu from the 20 ships of the nominal ability to about 17.700 teu.

One of the more active companies in the field of the new constructions is amche the taiwanese Evergreen Line, fourth in the world-wide ranking of the field of the transport of line with 788 thousand teu, that a pocketbook anticipates orders of 29 ships for an ability total of 300.273 teu, pairs to beyond 10.300 teu for each portacontenitori.

More content is the orderbook of the third company of the field, the French CMA CGM whose fleet in service has an ability to 1,5 million teu, that it is composed of 13 portacontainer for total 140,890 teu, that is 10,800 teu/ship.

We remember that last month the three first carriers of the transport of line, Maersk Line, MSC and CMA CGM, have announced the constitution of an operating alliance to which they will assign 255 ships ( on 18 June 2013). Many observatories have estimated as this initiative is time by Maersk Line to assure cargos to the new ships from 18.000 teu employees on the main world-wide routes that connect ports relay and to assure therefore their economic sustainability.