Fuelled by the newbuilding boom during the Covid-19-induced peak, the world container ship fleet reached 30 million TEUs in September, according to a report by shipbroking firm Clarksons.
Clarkson Research director Trevor Crowe noted that the boxship fleet has grown faster in recent years, compared to the early years of container shipping in the 1950s.
It was not until 1985 that the container ship fleet hit 1 million TEUs, and it took another 22 years for it to hit 10 million TEUs in 2007, and...
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