In last the three months the BIMCO has recorded a fort rise of the activity of demolition of portacontainer



This year the activity of demolition of portacontenitori ships has reached levels record. It has emphasized today shipowning association international BIMCO evidencing that this given constitutes "a positive surprise for the field of the marine transport of the container that it pours in difficulty".

"In last the three months - Peter Sand has explained, head analyst Shipping of the association - the demolition activity has surprised positively the BIMCO exceeding our initial expectations based on the disastrous activity of demolition of 2015. This impulse constitutes a thrust in the right direction, as the demolition activity it is one of the measures essential and necessary to adopt in order to re-balance the field of the containerized marine transport. It is important that the demolition of the ability in excess happens more soon possible, as is still an important program of deliveries that weighs on the field of the containerized marine transport for the remaining part of this year and also in 2017-2018. However the elevated activity of demolition is slowing down the rate of growth of the clean offer of ability to containerized marine transport and, if it continues, it will return less dark the forecasts for the years to come".

The BIMCO has announced that by the beginning of this year pairs altogether to 500.000 teu are demolished portacontainer for a hold ability, that is 4,2 times in more regarding the activity than demolition carried out in the correspondent period of 2015. Moreover in last the three months it is realized beyond 41% of the total activity of demolition carried out in 2016, that it is centralized mainly on the Panamax ships.

In particular, the demolition of portacontainer the Panamax represents 47% of the total (in terms of teu) of the volume of the demolitions put into effect up to now in 2016. 30% of the total are constituted by the demolition of portacontenitori of ability comprised between about 1.000 and 3.000 teu and 23% from the demolition of ships feeder. The BIMCO has evidenced the particular importance of the demolition of portacontainer from 1.000-3.000 teu, than generally they are larger and more young people of the Panamax ships and feeder, circumstance that it denotes as the field has assumed concrete measures in order to face the crisis.

The shipowning association has emphasized moreover as the elevated level of demolitions is concomitant to the lowest level than orders for the new construction portacontainer of last the twenty years found recently from the BIMCO, with contracts that in the first eight months of the 2016 have turned out, in terms of tons of tonnage compensated formers, inferiors of 84% regarding the same period of 2015.

"The events of 2016 - it has found Sand - have demonstrated, that the instruments in order to restructure the field of the containerized marine transport are used and are giving turned out. The recommendations for a consolidation of the fleets and the demolition of the ships are taken seriously by the field".