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Container transport vessels have been taking containers full of various types freight to international destinations in one form or another has been a traditional way of exporting goods for thousands of years. The containers have changed from the days of the early sea traders, but the concept is pretty much the same as the days of the first Mediterranean shipping companies. Pure containerships are a vessel type that has recently been thought of in the same terms that many scientists today talk about the polar bear or coral reefs of the world. A type of pure transport vessel that might have seen its last days on Earth, but it appears that we might have been wrong about the extinction of the pure containership?

In fact, only the second order of pure containerships since the beginning of the financial rough seas the ocean freight shipping industry has been riding out for the past 18 months or so was ordered by Chinese shipping company Sinotrans, recently. Does this mean that the container transport industry is about to get a boost in business somewhere on planet Earth? This is only a single order for pure containerships and it could be a test run to see if pure containerships can still compete against more versatile types of freight carrying vessels that have been on the oceans for awhile.

The lull in new pure container transport vessel construction doesn’t have to be all bad for shipyards that have traditionally made this type of freight vessel. The lack of orders will have given them time to start work on new environmentally friendly containership designs to help reduce the propeller-print of the ocean freight carrier industry as it tries to navigate the treacherous reefs surrounding the sea lanes into the century of the environment.

If the timing of pure containership builders is spot-on, we might even see pure containerships of some type emerge on the other side of the reefs in forms and shapes that will amaze and astound us?

Tags: container transport, shipping freight, Trucking transport

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