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Supply/demand balance

Cargo volumes are expected to grow more slowly than the fleet, at 3-4% in both 2024 and 2025 vs. fleet growth of 9.5% in 2024 and 4.9% in 2025. However, the ship supply/demand balance is still expected to strengthen in 2024 as Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea force ships to take longer r... Please follow the link to continue reading.

Supply

We forecast that the fleet will have grown 9.6% YoY by the end of 2024 and another 5.5% YoY by the end of 2025. During the three year period from 2023 to 2025, the fleet will therefore expand by 25%, the fastest rate of growth since the three years from 2011 to 2013. The continuing diversion away f... Please follow the link to continue reading.

Sanctions Clause for Container Vessel Time Charter Parties 2021

The sanctions landscape for the container trade has grown increasingly complex over the past decade. To provide the container industry with a bespoke contractual solution that addresses the practical and commercial realities of the liner trade BIMCO has developed a Sanctions Clause for Container Ves... Please follow the link to continue reading.

Supply

We have made a minor change to our fleet forecast, as ship recycling has got off to a slower than expected start in 2023. This has changed our fleet growth forecast to 7.3% and 8.0% for 2023 and 2024 respectively. We expect the fleet to end 2024 with 29.8 million TEU after a total of 4.9 million ... Please follow the link to continue reading.

Supply/demand

Though container volume growth has obviously been lower than many had hoped, it is the supply side developments that are the market’s main challenges. Supply is forecasted to grow at an average annual rate of 8.4% between 2023 and 2025. Even at the best of times, ship demand would not see similar ... Please follow the link to continue reading.