For example, the Containership market is certainly struggling in this way.
It will be the world's largest Containership to run on LNG fuel.
As a result both the Containership and LNG trades have enjoyed dramatic, positive impacts.
The London-listed specialist fund said that the Containership is designed to haul fresh fruit all over the globe.
Monaco-based seaborne shipping company Navios
Maritime Containers has acquired a 2011-built Containership from an unrelated party for USD 52.5 million.
The ferry's bow penetrated the hull of the Containership, causing the two vessels to become stuck together
and resulting in a major oil spill.
Navios Containers will own 30 Containerships, including a Containership subject to an unexercised option,
totaling 152,821 TEU, with a current average fleet age of 10.4 years.
The cause of the fire is unknown but is believed
to be unrelated to the deadly fire that broke about aboard another Maersk Containership earlier this month.
The crew of the MSC Matilde Containership“were disembarked from the vessel as a precaution” after it started
listing heavily during the night at the Port of Liverpool, UK.
The first ship to arrive at the Moín Container Terminal last week
was Hamburg Süd's Polar México Containership, with a Nominal Capacity of 3,947 TEU, arriving from Panama.
We believe that separate drybulk and Containership investment options will give our shareholders the flexibility
to adjust their holdings, if they so wish, between the two sectors,: he added.
The Containership is expected to be delivered into Navios
Containers' fleet in Q1 2019 and is chartered out at a net rate of $26,325 per day until November 2020 and thereafter $27,300 per day until October 2021.
The ocean freight industry has seen several major incidents over the past few weeks,
including two fires on board two separate Maersk vessels, and a Containership collision in Karachi Port that forced the temporary closure of the port.
The Containership, operated by Taiwan shipping company Yang
Ming Marine Transport Corporation, also sustained structural damage to its lashing bridges, superstructure and accommodation ladder, and spent a further five days at sea before berthing in Sydney on June 6.
The Containership charter owner informed that the new charter,
commencing on or around November 20, 2018, is for a period of between seven and 10 months(at charterer's option) at a rate of $8,450 per day, up from $7,800 per day under the preceding charter.