Owners weather the storm

摘要

Germany's owners control more container ships than any other country. The German-owned fleet (1,737 vessels totalling 26.1 illion dwt) is the world's seventh biggest, but includes by far the largest capacity of container ships - over 21 per cent of the total TEU capacity. Equally impressive is that the average age of the container ship fleet is under three years. However the German flagged fleet ranks in 15th position with 9.7 million dwt.