2013 Biggest Year Ever For Containership Deliveries

by Ship & Bunker News Team
Monday October 22, 2012

Braemer Seascope predicts 2013 will be the biggest year ever for containership deliveries, after large-scale demolitions this year kept total growth down.

"With fleet management at the fore front of ship manager's minds, supply growth this year has been actively countered with plenty of cellular demolition," said Jonathan Roach, Braemar Seascope's container analyst.

"During the first three quarters of 2012, containership demolition reached in excess of 220,000 TEU and we estimate by the end of the year the TEU capacity scrapped will reach the 300,000 TEU level.

"This represents the equivalent of approximately two per cent of the 1st January 2012 fleet."

The biggest year for cellular scrapping on record was 2009, when 370,000 TEU was recycled.

Braemer's latest Quarterly Container Ship Fleet Statistics estimates that 1.7m TEU is scheduled for delivery next year, and the cellular fleet will expand by about 9.5 percent.

The largest previous year for cellular deliveries was 2008, when about 1.5m TEU was commissioned, and the amount this year was 1.3m.

Growth will come largely in ships of 10,000 TEU or more it said, with a total of 48 such ships with a combined capacity of 650,000 TEU.

Despite the prediction of record deliveries, a report from the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO) says that in percentage terms the rate of growth in in the overall capacity of the global containership fleet is slowing.

Ship & Bunker News Team
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