Containership charter rates up on rising demand for extra loaders and feeder tonnage
Liner operators are having to take what they can get to fill gaps in schedules after a rerouting of services away from the Red Sea
Hapag-Lloyd is said to have chartered a 3,400 teu containership for deployment from China to the Mediterranean as rerouting of Asia-Europe services reduces capacity. With few large containerships coming open on the charter market liner operators could be forced to redeploy vessels from other trades