
MSC is interested in ordering ten ships of 11,000 TEUs — far from the size of the latest megaships of more than 19,000 TEUs.
Dynamar reports that Seaspan, an owner that doesn’t operate ultra-large container ships, doesn’t think ships of 18,000 to 20,000 TEUs will become the 747s of shipping, arguing that their deployment will remain restricted to a limited number of ports on the Europe-Far East run. It is convinced that they are missing the flexibility of the 10,000/14,000-teu range of container ships that have developed into the workhorses of an increasing number of liner trades.
As an analyst, Strauss also mentioned the size of the new locks in the enlarged Panama Canal: Roughly 13,000-TEU vessels will be the limit to transit the canal.
Excerpted from the Maritime Executive. Read the full article here.