The Seatrade Maritime Podcast is joined by analysts from Maritime Strategies International to take a look at the outlook for containers, tankers, dry bulk, and shipbuilding in the second half the year.
Taiwan-based shipping line Evergreen is planning a massive fleet expansion plan and ordering twenty-four 16,000 teu methanol dual-fuelled containerships at a total cost of up to $5 billion.
Three Shanghai-based shipbuilding yards under China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), Jiangnan Shipyard, Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding and Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding have bagged 63 newbuilding orders in the first half of this year.
The US Congress approved a US International Development Finance Corp (DFC) plan to allocate a $125 million loan to Syros island-based ONEX Shipyards which is working to relaunch Elefsis Shipyard located at Elefsina, west of Piraeus.
ADNOC Logistics and Services took delivery of a newbuild VLCC named Hafeet last month.
As the flood of newbuildings ordered during in the container shipping boom in 2021 – 22 comes into the market nearly 300,000 teu of shipping capacity were delivered in June according to analyst Alphaliner.
Cosco Shipping Energy Transportation plans to further enlarge its LNG carrier fleet through the construction of two new large-size LNG carriers.
Pakistan’s Gadani Beach could become a ghost town as the ten-kilometre strip, home to more than 130 shipbreaking plots, fails to adapt to the Hong Kong Convention rules.
Damen Shipyards Group has strengthened its position in the Swedish market through a strategic partnership with Lazarus Industriförvaltning.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. (MOL) has entered into a lease agreement covering three LNG carriers under construction in China.