A STUDY by Lloyd's Register of Shipping has found that the optimum ultra-large container ship that can potentially be supported by the present and forecast global container trade and ports network is a 12 500 teu (twenty foot equivalent unit) ship.
Trickle traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, hugging the Iranian coastline at Qeshm and the islands of Hormuz and Larak, has brought no significant change to the closed-off waterway.Source: Research Gate
A new Sea-Intelligence analysis warns that resuming Suez transits could release 2.1 million TEU of capacity but may also unleash a wave of congestion at European ports.
