{"id":128388,"date":"2018-01-11T10:56:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T08:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/more-mega-ships-are-a-big-problem-for-cargo-carriers\/"},"modified":"2018-01-11T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T08:56:02","slug":"more-mega-ships-are-a-big-problem-for-cargo-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/en\/more-mega-ships-are-a-big-problem-for-cargo-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"More Mega-Ships Are a Big Problem for Cargo Carriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-128386\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8b35251629550da8feea269bc35f4339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8b35251629550da8feea269bc35f4339-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8b35251629550da8feea269bc35f4339-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8b35251629550da8feea269bc35f4339-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8b35251629550da8feea269bc35f4339-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8b35251629550da8feea269bc35f4339.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>Container shipping companies are bracing for a challenging year &#8212; they will have more space available for carrying goods than the amount of cargo that\u2019s out there.<\/p>\n<p>Corrine Png, chief executive officer of research firm Crucial Perspective, estimates freight-carrying capacity on container ships will rise 5.9 percent this year, outstripping demand growth for the first time since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s largely because more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-09\/more-mega-ships-are-a-big-problem-for-cargo-carriers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40 huge container vessels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Container shipping companies are bracing for a challenging year &#8212; they will have more space  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritimes-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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