18.01.2019
Artikel Nummer: 25967
Drewry with less confidence in ULCVs
“We believe that the industry’s supply-demand balance will benefit from a reduced appetite for ultra large container vessels (ULCVs), said Simon Heaney, senior manager, container research at the London-based maritime consultancy Drewry and editor of the Container Forecaster.
He added: "Aside from feeder ship replenishment, there has been no reaction from other lines to HMM’s mega-ship order and as such we have greatly reduced our projected new orders for 2020 onwards.”
Nevertheless, Drewry expects a tighter but still over-supplied market despite this trend. Weaker global macro-economic drivers contributed to a downgrade to Drewry’s port throughput forecast for 2019 to approximately 4%. (kd)