The containership orderbook required by extended scheduling and requisite additional capacity to reroute EU-Asia rotations around the Cape of Good Hope CoGH has reached a record 10.4 million TEU, or about 31.7 of the current fleet.
This was revealed after it came to light that the fleet-expansion drives of lines avoiding Red Sea risk were the highest they had been since 2010.
The global order book now includes a mix of ultra-large container ships ULCS and smaller feeder/regional vessels up to 4 000 twenty-foot boxes, with 74 such smaller vessels ordered in the first half of 2025 alone, nearly matching the full-year total for 2024.