It’s not only in the Container shipping market that the rates are high, the charter rates for general cargo vessels in the European shortsea market have continued a steep climb:
Misje Bulk A/S of Bergen’s 1991 Wewelsfleth built JOMI arriving at Liverpool from Glasgow with a cargo of scrap metal for transipment to deep sea vessels.
Photo: Malcolm Cranfield ©
The Bahamas flag shortsea bulker Jomi is owned by a Norwegian company, built in Germany in 1991 for a British company and manned by East Europeans.
She carry cargo between two British ports, even though UK is no longer a member of EU.
Misje Rederi A/S: