MSC plans to have three series of eight or nine 12,500- to 13,500-TEU ships, and a series of nine 11,000-TEU class on order for delivery from 2008 to 2011, according to AXS Alphaliner News.
Swiss-based MSC, the world's second largest container carrier, will be in a position to offer five high-volume weekly loops on the Asia-Med-North Europe sector by 2011-2012, said the French analytical newsletter. These four loops would offer an annual capacity of 3.2 million TEU, it said.
If MSC maintains three more loops with its current 8,000- to 9,600-TEU ships, its capacity would reach 4.6 million TEU, nearly twice its current total on its existing six Far East-Med-North Europe loops.
MSC has increased its capacity 30 per cent in six months on this route, according to a recent AXS-Alphaliner assessment.
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