Laid up box ship numbers fall 8.9pc to 7.5pc in two 2 weeks

THE idle containership fleet has declined again over two weeks to one million TEU or 7.5 per cent of the global cellular fleet, the lowest since February 2009, according to Alphaliner records.

Only the week before, the Paris-based shipping consultancy reported that laid-up tonnage at the end of March totalled 1.18 million TEU, or 445 ships, after which it slipped again below the 1.2 million TEU mark, or 8.9 per cent of the global fleet.

(Source: www.Schednet.net)