Boxship blues

As large chunks of the shipping industry batten down the hatches to ride out the deepening economic storm, one of the hardest hit sectors is container shipping, with more than 300 idle, equating to about 550,000TEU, at the time of writing, according to statistics from Lloyd’s List Intelligence, writes Denzil Stuart.

Mega-boxships like ‘CMA CGM Marco Polo’, at 15,000TEU, could bring about new problems

As large chunks of the shipping industry batten down the hatches to ride out the deepening economic storm, one of the hardest hit sectors is container shipping, with more than 300 idle, equating to about 550,000TEU, at the time of writing, according to statistics from Lloyd’s List Intelligence, writes Denzil Stuart.

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