French container consultants Alphaliner suggest 2017 will be another record year for containership scrapping with some 750,000 teu of ships set to be torched this year. 2016 was a record year with the final number disputed – Alphaliner saying 655,000 teu, while Braemar ACM claimed the eventual total was around 700,000 teu.
Alphaliner reports a total of 42,000 teu has already been removed from the global fleet in the first three weeks of this year, with a further 113,000 teu due to follow in the coming weeks.
Panamaxes account for a majority of the ships to be scrapped, totalling 16 units of 4,000-5,000 teu.
