SEA-INTELLIGENCE has analysed shipping liners’ vessel developments on Africa-bound services, highlighting the continent’s growing importance as a key maritime hub, reports London’s Port Technology International. MSC booked the deployment of 23,000-TEUers on its Asia-WAF ‘Africa Express’ service. Currently, the largest vessel on the service is of 16,600 TEU, with the average vessel size on the service of 14,465 TEU. These new phase-ins would raise the service’s nominal capacity by 50 per cent,...
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