Scrapping
levels set to be higher than recent years, but 1.4 million TEUs worth of new
vessels will be delivered
More than 200,000
TEUs worth of shipping capacity is to be disposed of in 2012. The number of
ships scrapped so far this year already significantly outnumbers the overall
quantity scrapped in 2011.
The rate of vessels
going offline is set to only increase, due to the lower earning potential and
lower efficiency of older vessels. Also, the average age of disposed container
ships has now dropped from the 28 years it was in the past decade to 26 years.
However, the global
shipping capacity will be bolstered by a staggering 1.4 million TEUs worth of
new vessel deliveries during 2012, container market analyst Alphaliner said. So
far this year, 621,000 TEUs worth of new ships have already been introduced.
The speed with
which old vessels are being dropped means that the scrapping rate for 2012 is
now one of the highest rates of demolition ever, second only to the rate in
2009 where 379,000 TEUs worth of vessels were demolished. Since January this
year, 69 ships totalling 124,000 TEUs have been scrapped, compared to just
85,000 TEUs in all of 2011.
Source: The
Port Technology. 24 May 2012
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