To end 2016 Mediterranean Shipping Company would have to become the first carrier of line of the world



According to the projections elaborated from the society of Alphaliner advising, at the end the 2016 shipowning company Genevan Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) would have to become the first carrier of line of the world climbing over Danish group A.P. Møller-Mærsk for total consistency of the ability to the fleet.

Currently - second the data collected from Alphaliner - MSC is solid to according to place in the ranking of the first companies of navigation of the field of line with a fleet of 500 portacontainer of the ability to 2,5 million teu, of which 193 ships of property for an ability to a million teu and 307 ships rental for an ability to beyond 1,4 million teu, while A.P. Møller-Mærsk has a fleet of 585 ships for an ability total of cargo pairs 2,8 million teu, of which 252 of property for a next ability to 1,6 million teu and 333 ships almost rental for an ability to 1,2 million teu.

Moreover today group MSC has a pocketbook orders that comprise 52 portacontenitori ships for an ability to 612 thousand teu, while the Danish shipowning group has orders with the ship yards for sun 11 ships of the total ability to 182 thousand teu. Alphaliner has remembered that the Chinese Bank of Communications Financial Leasing Co. (BCLC) has undersigned recently regulating with the South Korean Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) for three new portacontainer from 19.000 teu that they are rented in the long term to the MSC and that they join to three tidy ships of same type 2013 in July. Moreover - it has specified Alphaliner - the group of Geneva is connected under orders - not still confirmed - for three ships from 19.200 teu commissioned to Samsung Heavy Industries from the Scorpio group, with ulterior options for two or three portacontainer. That door to 17 the total number of new ships of ability comprised between 16.000 and 19.000 teu ordered and connected to the group MSC, number that could grow with the exercise of the options. In more MSC it has signed contracts for about 35 portacontainer new-Panamax of new construction of the ability to 8.800-9.400 teu. All these ships will be delivered between 2015 and 2016 and, therefore, the total ability to the MSC fleet it would have to go up from 2,5 million to 3,0 million teu within the end of the 2016 (ability that holds account of the dismissione or demolition of ships in the arc of the two years for an ability total of about 110 thousand teu).