
SINGAPORE: Several shipping companies are introducing new and larger ships this year, Maersk’s Triple-E being the largest with a capacity of 18,000 TEU. However, the participants at this year’s Sea Asia conference in Singapore, which opened on Tuesday, are sure that launching more mega-ships is the way to go.
“For us, it is about keeping expenses down although our order might have been different if we had known what the market would look like today,” said Thomas Riber Knudsen, CEO of Maersk Line, Asia Pacific Region, to ShippingWatch following this morning’s discussion which centered on the shipping industry in 2013.
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