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📢 Red Sea crisis reverses decline in ships sales 📈 Container sale and purchase deals surged again in the first half of 2024, as carriers and NOOs reacted to the red-hot charter and freight markets. ℹ️ After a slump in transactions in the second half of 2023, more than half a million teu of container tonnage changed hands in the first six months of 2024. Carriers sought every available ship to meet the demands of the extended trip around the Cape of Good Hope and maintain lucrative service schedules. 💰 Some 141 ships of 572,600 teu were bought and sold between January and June, an average of 23 units per month. This compared to an average of 15 sales per month in the second half of 2023. ❗ Despite an increase in freight rates from September onwards, there was no immediate reaction in the second hand market, with many carriers believing the crisis to be a short-term issue. Realisation that there was no quick solution saw a change of heart from January onwards. ✅ Subscribe to Alphaliner Weekly Newsletter https://okt.to/4TxHQi

📣 The Loadstar: On the back of rocketing spot freight rates, Hapag-Lloyd today upped its 2024 financial guidance after releasing unaudited first-half results. Despite the increase, some analysts have questioned why the German carrier was not more bullish in its outlook. 💭 Alphaliner commented “It will come as no surprise that carriers are revising their financial expectations upwards, though observers might have expected an even greater uplift from Q1 to Q2. The higher forecast was mainly due to earnings momentum for the second half of the year” ✅ Read the full article below:

📣 ShippingWatch: MSC bought the most second-hand tonnage in the first six months of 2024, while AP Moller-Maersk has sold the most second-hand tonnage, according to Alphaliner. 💡 Read the full article below:

📢 XINDE MARINE NEWS: MSC has secured two 14,000 TEU container ships under construction at Jiangnan Shipyard for a total of $333 million. These vessels were originally ordered by China's BAL Container Line Co., Ltd. (BAL). The transaction yielded a premium of $48.5 million. ℹ️ According to Alphaliner data, in addition to the newly purchased orders, MSC currently holds 99 new ship orders, totaling nearly 1.2 million TEU in capacity. 👉 Read the full article below:

🎉 Our team had a great time at the 2024 Maritime Silk Road Port International Cooperation Forum last week in Ningbo, exploring trendy topics in the international port and shipping industry development. 🤩 Sam Goh, Keston Chia and Rinaldi Gumulya were amazed by the exceptionally well-organized event. They really felt at home in Ningbo and appreciated the opportunity to meet so many participants from the port, logistics, and shipping sectors, as well as various media partners. 🙌 🌟 Our boys were also pleased to have this excellent opportunity to meet stakeholders from China's Zhejiang Province, including representatives from the Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group. Check out a few of their happy moments below:

📢 The Loadstar: MSC has grown faster than any other carrier, “fuelled by a massive newbuilding programme, countless second-hand acquisitions and, to a lesser degree, chartering”, said Alphaliner. 📊 Alphaliner data shows THE Alliance carriers had some 11.6% of global market share, the future Gemini Cooperation of Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd some 22% between them, Ocean Alliance members nearly 29%. Other non-aligned carriers, such as Wan Hai, Zim and PIL, had most of the remainder. 💡 Read the full article below:

📢 ShippingWatch: For the first time in the history of the Swiss-Italian shipping group, MSC now accounts for 20% of the total world fleet. 👉 Alphaliner writes that MSC is approaching another milestone. Soon, the company will have a capacity of more than 6 million teu 💡 Read the full article below:

📢 TradeWinds: Sixty-four container ships had been ordered, or total capacity of 543,500 teu, by mid-year, according to Alphaliner. 📈 Deliveries in 2023, 2024 and 2025 are two to three times higher than the historical average, Alphaliner said, bringing the total number of ships delivered in the first six months of this year to 271 for 1.68m teu. 💡 Read the full article below:

📣 Big capacity boost for Latin American-related services 📈 The global container fleet grew 10.6% between 1 June 2023 and 1 June 2024. This huge capacity injection of 2.85 Mteu slots has helped carriers to deploy more ships in liner services between Asia or the Indian Subcontinent and Europe, where more units are needed for the re-routings via the Cape of Good Hope due to the Red Sea crisis. 📊 As a consequence of this, capacity increases on all other trades were well below 10.6%, with the Latin American region the only exception. According to Alphaliner data, the total capacity of vessels deployed in deep sea and regional liner services to and from Latin America increased from 3.5 Mteu on 1 June 2023 to 4.1 Mteu ( 17.4%). 💡 Our chart of the week clearly shows the far reaching impact of the Red Sea crisis on the deployment of the overall container fleet. Carriers operating weekly services between Asia and Europe had to add between 25% and 30% more ships to their loops to keep them fully staffed. ✅ Subscribe to Alphaliner Weekly Newsletter https://okt.to/4TxHQi

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