INTERNATIONAL shipbroker
Braemar Seascope has reported that 56 per cent of new containership capacity
delivered over the past two years entered the Asia-North Europe and
Asia-Mediterranean trades.
It said that 2.6 million TEU
of newbuilding capacity has been delivered over this period with 1.5 million
TEU being absorbed by the Asia-Europe trades.
In 2011 alone, "59
post-Panamax containerships, with an average capacity of 11,500 TEU, entered
Asia-Europe services, adding 680,000 TEU of fresh capacity", Braemar was
cited as saying in a report by the American Shipper.
"Additionally, 15
containerships of an average 8,400 TEU were delivered and deployed on
Asia-Mediterranean and a developing Asia-Middle East trade lane, adding more
than 125,000 TEU of new capacity."
The Asia-east coast South
America route also absorbed a significant amount of the new tonnage delivered
over the past two years, with 40 newbuildings entering service, including high
reefer capacity vessels of more than 7,000 TEU which were introduced by Maersk
Line and Hamburg Sud.
"In 2011, this emerging
Latin American container route accounted for more than 10 per cent of all new
capacity commissioned," Braemar said. "Another developing container
trade lane, Asia-West Africa, witnessed deployment of 11 newbuildings last
year, including the first of a newbuilding series of twenty-two 4,500-TEU
geared vessels designed for the West African-Asian trade."
Said Braemar analyst
Jonathan Roach: "For the next three years we expect another four million
TEU to hit the water, which includes 150 containerships with a capacity of
10,000 TEU or more."
London's Containerisation
International noted that according to Clarkson Research Services' latest
Container Intelligence Monthly, the global containership fleet capacity will
increase 7.3 per cent this year, with an estimated 67 per cent of the capacity
to be delivered being over 8,000 TEU.
Source : HKSG.
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