Charter market activity has slowed down with very no new fixtures in the large
sizes of above 4,000 teu in the past 2 weeks, with all of the recent charter
deliveries in the past week concluded several weeks in advance. CMA CGM took the
7,092 teu KOTA CALLAO on 4 August on a short term fixture for a China-Panama
trip at a reported rate of around $105,000 in a deal concluded in early June.
Demand has cooled noticeably since then, but with very limited vessel
availability the charter rate indices