MEDITERRANEAN Shipping Company (MSC) has surpassed yet another milestone as the carrier continues to open its lead on the rest of the segment.
This comes as the second-hand and charter markets remain red hot setting their own records and container carriers are again moving to increase the orderbook, according to Fort Lauderdale's The Maritime Executive.
The latest update of the league table produced by Alphaliner, the Top 100, shows that msc quietly slipped past the six million TEU mark and is now actually more than 12,000 TEU above the mark.
Alphaliner points out that it is the first time in history and part of the overall growth of the market.
In the past year, they calculated the segment overall had a 'huge capacity injection of 2.85 million TEU,' which represented a 10.6 per cent increase.
The total market is now over 7,000 vessels with a total capacity above 30 million TEU. So far in 2024, Alphaliner reports 1.7 million TEU of new capacity has been added to the segment.
MSC now controls a total of 844 ships Alphaliner reports of which it now owns 546 vessels which contributes half its total carry capacity.
The second-hand market continued at a feverish pace in the first half of 2024, with Alphaliner calculating that 572,600 TEU changed hands (141 vessels) after a slowdown in the market in the second half of 2023.
They highlight that on average 23 vessels were traded each month in 2024 as carriers scramble to fill gaps in capacity in part due to the longer voyages around Africa.
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This comes as the second-hand and charter markets remain red hot setting their own records and container carriers are again moving to increase the orderbook, according to Fort Lauderdale's The Maritime Executive.
The latest update of the league table produced by Alphaliner, the Top 100, shows that msc quietly slipped past the six million TEU mark and is now actually more than 12,000 TEU above the mark.
Alphaliner points out that it is the first time in history and part of the overall growth of the market.
In the past year, they calculated the segment overall had a 'huge capacity injection of 2.85 million TEU,' which represented a 10.6 per cent increase.
The total market is now over 7,000 vessels with a total capacity above 30 million TEU. So far in 2024, Alphaliner reports 1.7 million TEU of new capacity has been added to the segment.
MSC now controls a total of 844 ships Alphaliner reports of which it now owns 546 vessels which contributes half its total carry capacity.
The second-hand market continued at a feverish pace in the first half of 2024, with Alphaliner calculating that 572,600 TEU changed hands (141 vessels) after a slowdown in the market in the second half of 2023.
They highlight that on average 23 vessels were traded each month in 2024 as carriers scramble to fill gaps in capacity in part due to the longer voyages around Africa.
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