Dry box output in the doldrums
NewsDry freight container builders are facing further difficulties this year, with production having declined to a seven-year low and finished p...
Box leasing still in the ascendency
NewsThe container leasing sector enjoyed another strong year in 2013, although its pace of fleet growth now appears to be slowing, while rental ...
Good times back for container lessors
NewsDemand for leased containers is holding strong in 2011 as shipping lines remain short of capital funding for their own investment. Lease rat...
Prospects remain hot for reefer lessors
NewsReefer demand recovered strongly in 2010 and with shipping lines short of investment funds, the leasing sector reaped the benefit....
IICL releases fleet survey
NewsThe Institute of International Container Lessors (IICL) has released its 2009 Annual Leased Container Fleet Survey, which shows that the wor...
Cosco Pacific set to freeze investment
NewsPort operator and container lessor Cosco Pacific will freeze investment and cut capital expenditure by 36% this year as it seeks to battle t...
Reefer production holding steady
NewsDemand for standard dry freight containers may have hit the buffers last year in the wake of the global economic downturn, but reefer produc...
beat mood in container storage business
NewsDespite the crisis in world credit markets and gloomy economic forecasts, over 675 delegates at the National Portable Storage Association (N...
A higher cost climate for container lessors
NewsDespite the fact that new container prices are at their highest point in more than 15 years, the world’s container leasing industry is on ...
2008 IICL fleet survey released
NewsThe Institute of International Container Lessors (IICL) has released its 20th Annual Leased Container Fleet Survey, which shows that survey ...
A tough year to call for container lessors
NewsA variety of factors have come together to make it difficult to forecast the prospects for the container leasing industry this year....
New players enter reefer leasing fray
NewsReefer container demand held up strongly during 2007, prompting several high-profile lessors to dip their toes in the market for the first t...
Box lessors confront a changing market
NewsThe world’s container leasing industry is confronting a changed market climate as returns come under pressure like never before and increa...
Resale market remains strong
NewsDemand for storage space in the US is at an all time high and is providing a ready market for second-hand container equipment. But some chal...
Magnum in demand
NewsThermo King reports strong demand in 2006 for its Magnum scroll/R404A reefer machinery with a number of leasing companies ordering Magnum un...