EVERY deepsea carrier has reduced
its operated capacity this year, except South Korea's HMM, which is taking delivery of a series of the world's
largest vessels.
And, in a double-whammy, the
carrier has also seen nine ships, amounting to nearly 100,000 TEU, returned from its former 2M partners, according to
new research from Alphaliner.
As
part of a cooperation agreement signed in 2017, 2M partners Maersk and MSC had
chartered the vessels - three of 13,100 TEU and six of 10,100 TEU - to deploy
on their Asia-Europe and transpacific strings, chartering slots back to HMM.
The agreement ended in April and
HMM joined THE Alliance as a full member, The
Loadstar, UK, reported.
Alphaliner said today: "Not
only did HMM have to redeploy these ships during the second quarter, but it
also took charge of the first in a series of twelve 24,000 TEU newbuildings.
"Four had already been
delivered by mid-June and are trading between Asia and North Europe, where HMM
can fill them with the help of its new partners in THE Alliance."
As a result, HMM's operated fleet capacity
has grown by a massive 42 per cent since the beginning of the year, taking its
total fleet to nearly 552,000 TEU and pushing it past Yang Ming to become the
world's eighth-largest box carrier.
"The steep fleet size
increase had already led to vessel cascading at HMM and it has forced the
carrier to idle ships," said Alphaliner. "The Seoul-based shipping line also decided to
'use the occasion' of having surplus tonnage to install scrubbers on a number
of 13,100 TEU and 8,600 TEU ships.
"Of note, a massive 33 per
cent of HMM's fleet was recorded as inactive at the end of May. The inactive
share is, however, down to 20 per cent today as vessels have been returning to
active service at a fast pace."
The rest of the 12 largest
carriers have all reduced capacity across their fleets this year. Maersk has seen
the largest overall decline in capacity, removing 236,000 TEU across 55 ships,
reducing its share of total global capacity from 17.8 per cent to 16.6 per
cent.
In terms of percentage reduction,
the largest was Taiwanese carrier Wan Hai, which reduced its slot capacity by
14 per cent by redelivering chartered vessels, and cash-strapped PIL, forced to
sell six 11,923 TEU vessels, reducing its capacity by 10.2 percent.
At the other end of the scale,
Hapag-Lloyd has reduced its capacity by just 0.2 per cent, and CMA CGM by 1 per
cent.
Source : HKSG.
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