Box lessors' bonanza

摘要

Like ocean carriers, forwarders and container terminal operators, container leasing companies also recovered well from the recession in 2010, due primarily to a near 50% increase in container leasing rates per day paid by ocean carriers.rnTextainer's ceo John Macca-rone summed up the situation for the whole industry when saying: 'Our record results benefited from a worldwide shortage of containers, which resulted in historically high utilisation rates throughout the year, In QA 10 we registered utilisation rates of 98%.