Owners with upper hand keep boxship charter rates at record highs

摘要

CONTAINERSHIP chartering rates are set to remain at record-breaking levels throughout 2022 on a critical shortage of tonnage, allowing owners to leverage longer hire periods as some carriers seek advance deals for existing vessels that are not available until 2023. "We're doing deals we couldn't have imagined three months ago," one shipbroker told Lloyd's List, attributing continued high demand for vessels partly to longer-lasting supply chain and inland logistics challenges in importing countries.