Mediterranean Shipping Co’s (MSC) secondhand buying spree has hit the 300-vessel threshold according to analyst Alphaliner.

In its weekly newsletter Alphaliner said that MSC was reported to have purchased six vessels in recent days. 

The latest acquisitions bring the total capacity acquired on the secondhand market by MSC in recent years to 1.2m teu a figure which alone would be equivalent to the world’s eighth largest container line sat between Ocean Network Express (ONE) with a 1.53m teu capacity fleet and HMM with a 816,000 teu capacity fleet.

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