Charter rates are seeing sharper drops with the start of the winter slack season
further pushing down market sentiment while charter periods are also
significantly shortened with more flexible delivery periods of 1-6 months being
reported.
Idle tonnage is starting to build up again but the pace of idling is still
slower than last year, with most of the larger ships due to return to service by
November.
However, the build up of surplus tonnage is starting to bite with even MSC
forced to idle