From Weekly Market Pulse published on 22 Oct: Year to date new containership
deliveries have already surpassed last year’s record of 2.3m teu with 2.5m teu
already handed over this year and a further 0.5m teu is still due to be
delivered before the year is over. Full year fleet growth is expected to reach
10.1% with limited scrapping and delivery slippage.
Just 78,200 teu have been scrapped so far this year, with the current run rate
at less than 5,000 teu deleted each month as the strong dema