Shipping line reduces speed

One of the world's largest container shipping lines says bunker costs now account for over 50% of its vessels' operating expenditure. A senior official of the French container transport and shipping company CMA CGM predicted that "'most shipping lines" would start steaming at "'economic speed to minimise bunker fuel consumption."

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