THE historic secondhand vessel acquisition spree of the Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) from August 2020 has now hit the 250-ship mark with news of three more acquisitions, reports Paris-based Alphaliner.
MSC chief executive Soren Toft has bought the 5,618-TEU, 1999-built sisterships Conti Canberra and Conti Darwin as well as the 14-year-old, 2,702-TEU X-Press Kanchenjunga.
MSC, which surpassed Maersk at the top of the liner rankings at the start of the year, now has a trading fleet of 4.57 million slots, as well as a record orderbook of 1.7 million TEU.
