The short sea shipping and container shipping markets are in a crisis. While in the Netherlands several ship owners have filed for bankruptcy recently, elsewhere in the world a record was broken with the sale for scrap of a container vessel, which was only ten years old. At the same time, the overcapacity of ships in this segment creates opportunities. While versatility was the trend only a few years ago, the tendency has now shifted to very specialised vessels, tailored to do a specific task in the most efficient way.
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