Ships that used to call at The Port Felixstowe now scrapped

Hanjin Colombo [LR] IMO 9082960 Container vessel built 1994 - 62,742 dwt
Msc Annick [PA] IMO 8609589 Container vessel built 1988 - 16,768 dwt
Msc Natalia [PA] IMO 8410940 Container vessel built 1986 - 43,403 dwt
Maersk Malacca [MH] IMO 8904123 Container vessel built 1990 - 56,049 dwt
Msc Imma [PA] IMO 7925508 Container vessel built 1983 - 42,077 dwt

MSC Scotland [LR] IMO 8913461 Container vessel built 1992 - 47,120 dwt

APL Alamandie (Mandi) IMO 9015498 Container vessel built 1993 - 59,560 dwt

Maersk Madrid [MH] IMO 8808628 Container vessel built 1989 - 59,285 dwt ex Peninsular Bay

MSC Gianna [PA] IMO 7925493 Container vessel built 1981 - 42,077 dwt

MSC Brianna [PA] IMO 8410952 Container vessel built 1986 - 43,288 dwt

Conti Chiwan (blues) [TG] IMO 9057496 Container vessel built 1994 - 44,519 dwt

MOL Independence [CY] IMO 8608585 Container vessel built 1986 - 41,413 gt

Hanjin Portland [LR] IMO 9021681 Container vessel built 1993 / 62,716 dwt

Conti Sydney [LR] IMO 8908167 Container vessel built 1990 - 23,596 dwt

MSC Austria / GR / IMO 8300121 Container vessel built 1984 - 48,485 dwt

Container Ship Scrapping Heads for Record

A record number of container ships, including increasingly younger vessels, is set to be scrapped this year, but this won’t reduce the current oversupply of vessels, according to industry analyst Alphaliner.

Scrapping is likely to reach 450,000 20-foot-equivalent units if the current pace of demolition continues, surpassing the record 381,000 TEUs removed from the world fleet in 2009.

In the first four months of 2013, ships totaling 195,000 TEUs have been scrapped or de-celled. The average age of such ships has fallen to a low of 22 years, compared with 25 to 30 years historically.

The surging scrapping rate is largely attributable to an increase in the number of 3,000- to 5,000-TEU vessels being sold to breakers’ yards, with 30 ships of this size sold for scrap so far this year, including the 4,714-TEU 1990-built Maersk Malacca, the biggest container vessel to be scrapped in capacity terms.

The Maersk Malacca’s sister ship, Maersk Merlion, is also due to be scrapped when she comes off charter later this month.

Trading prospects are expected to remain poor, with the 3,000- to 5,000-TEU Panamax sector the weakest segment because of oversupply as shipowners opt for larger post-Panamax tonnage.

Five 4,528-TEU ships owned by APL also are set to be scrapped in the summer after ending their deployment on the Far East-U.S. East Coast service via the Suez Canal. They will be replaced by larger 8,000- to 9,000-TEU vessels.

Despite the record scrapping rates, the total capacity due to be deleted from the world fleet still trails deliveries of new ships by a ratio of 1:3, Alphaliner said.

Containership scrappage rates are expected to exceed previous records this year, but cellular capacity removed due to demolition will still be surpassed by a ratio of one to three by newbuilding deliveries, reported Lloyd’s List citing Alphaliner.

If the current recycling trend of boxships continues, the total capacity consigned to breakers’ yards in 2013 could reach 450,000 teu – exceeding the previous record of 381,000 teu set in 2009. This acceleration in scrapping is mainly attributed to the rush to remove redundant panamax ships where charter hire rates for a 4,200 teu unit are at depressed levels, averaging below $10,000 per day.

This compares to a 12 – year average of $24,000 per day and a January 2005 peak of almost $45,000 per day, Alphaliner said. Moreover, the average age for scrapping of containerships has fallen to 22 years, versus the historical level of 25 to 30 years, but there is also an increase in the number of so – called ‘ teenagers ’, ships under 20 years, being sold for scrap, Alphaliner explained.

World's biggest ship graveyard - where huge tankers and cruise liners are scrapped on the shorefront and workers toil for £2 a day

• Massive Gadani ship-breaking yard stretches some 10kn along the coast near Karachi, Pakistan
• Workers are paid a pittance to work in filthy and dangerous conditions but there is not shortage of recruits
• The facility reduces around 100 ships a year into sheets and angles of metal, pipes and working machines
• It produces about a million tonnes of steel fulfilling most of Pakistan's demand for metal from the construction sector

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