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Concordia Maritime looks at converting tankers to boxships

Posted on February 9, 2022 by just2bruce | 1 comment

The new mantra is ‘anything that can carry containers’. Concordia owns 6 tankers they would like to convert to container ships. Recently it’s been bulk ships of other sorts that have been converted.

Back in the 60s, Malcolm McLean, the founder of container shipping, did just that for his first container ships! I didn’t know that!

Read on to see some of the details of the conversion.

Sam Chambers February 8, 2022

Concordia Maritime looks at converting tankers to boxships – Splash247

https://splash247.com/our-obligation-to-turn-every-stone-to-try-to-create-shareholder-value-concordia-maritime-explains-tanker-conversion-decision/

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Tagged congestion, container shipping, innovation, Logistics, tanker conversion

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