Table by Drewry
The latest Container Insight Weekly from Drewry Shipping Consultants Ltd. says that newbuilding deferral offers the container industry a golden opportunity to smooth out the capacity peaks in the coming years.
Drewry points to the dire state of the shipbuilding industry where “nobody is ordering vessels, of any type, and pretty soon yards across the world will find themselves with little to keep them occupied.”
Drewry believes that “the vulnerable position of the shipyards gives containership operator-owners a window of opportunity to smooth out the delivery of the newbuilds to which they are committed and to massage the supply/demand balance more in their favor.”