Not very interesting future for transport container for the upcoming months
This year, according to experts working in the agency Drewry does not look good for the transport industry. she estimates, that the rates for transport will continue to decline significantly, and unfortunately opportunities to reduce operating costs by transport companies have already reached the level of, in which not much can be done. Even the release at sea of ships carrying capacity 18 thousand TEU situation does not improve, since it does not produce so much, as originally assumed. A little less radical vision presents another agency, i.e. Strategies International Maritime. Its experts are planning a much larger increase in freight transport on routes between Europe and Asia, at the same time passing on scrap older container ships will allow shippers to make up though part. But even with such optimistic vision no one speaks, the freight market will soon wait a bright future. Especially in light of, that a number of forecasts indicate only a slight increase in transshipment ports, and even if it will be, This whole industry certainly does not come out of the crisis. 
One of the procedures used by companies to reduce costs has become slow steaming. It consists in reducing the speed of flowing container ship, by which he will consume slightly less fuel. The use of such solutions allow to save a few percent of the fuel, However, at slightly longer time transport. But recently it turned out, it was just an idea for a short time, because business owners are wondering more and more on its use. Especially that the reduction in fuel prices put the efficacy of inhibition of container ships under a big question mark. As shown by the survey Alphaliner, on routes between the US and China, the average speed is growing ever greater, reaching up to twenty knots on the route to the west coast. However, further adhesion speed is not much you can count on in the coming weeks. For the last six of the eighteen to thirty thousand dollars a day increased the price of bunker, What the crisis, that there is now on the market for some carriers may be insurmountable.