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Table 9: Overall trends in refrigerated container slots on ships from 1996 to 1997 |
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| All figures in TEU Source: : Clarkson Container Intelligence Monthly |
The number of refrigerated container slots on ships (see Table 9) is gowing at approximately 14% per year, around the same rate at which the number of containers is increasing.
Table 10 shows the development in the size and age of the container ship fleet including the refrigerated container capacity at the end of 1997. A total of some 2,200 were available for transporting refrigerated containers. The large ships with a high refrigerated container capacity which were over five years old in 1997, were ships used to transport porthole containers. Recently built ships are exclusively ships used to transport integral containers. The ships of the "Regina Maersk" group, for instance, have 700 refrigerated container slots, which is equivalent to 1,400 TEUs. The largest refrigerated container ship in the world in 2004, the "Monte Cervantes", owned by Hamburg-Süd, has more than 1,365 slots for 2,450 TEU refrigerated containers. This gives refrigerated containers a share of almost 50% of the overall capacity of the ship of 5,100 TEU.
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| Table 10: Trends in the size and age of ships with refrigerated container capacity |
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| Figure 28: The "Dole Colombia" refrigerated container ship built by HDW in 1999 with 990 FEU (= 1980 TEU) water-cooled refrigerated containers |
