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ALPHALINER Weekly Newsletter 2009-Week 16 axs-alphaliner.com – the worldwide reference in liner shipping Textainer to acquire Amficon fleet from 1 May Main Container Leasing Companies Total Dry Container Fleet as at Jan 2009 Textainer increases its container fleet Leading container lessor, Textainer announced on 16 April that it has acquired the management rights to 150,000 teu of containers from Amphibious Container Leasing Limited (Amficon). The acquisition takes effect from 1 May. Arising from this purchase, Textainer will operate a fleet of approximately 2.2 million TEU of mainly dry containers. With the acquisition, Textainer would control approximately 19% of the global leasing market for dry containers, further extending its current lead at the top of the leasing fleet table. The acquisition of Amficon’s significant number of flat rack and open top containers will also double Textainer’s fleet of specialized containers, a market segment that it is planning to strategically increase. This is the latest in a series of consolidations in the container leasing sector as it grapples with a challenging operating environment with difficult funding conditions and carrier returning surplus container units to lessors. Textainer has earlier acquired the management of the fleet of Gateway in 2006 and Capital Lease in 2007. Textainer Florens Triton TAL GE Seaco CAI Seacastle Gold UES/GVC Cronos Dong Fang Capital Amficon Beacon Top 15 Container Leasing Company Fleet as at Jan 2009 (Dry containers only excl Reefers) CARU Textainer and Amficon fleet to be combined from 1 May 2009 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 TEU Millions P a g e | 12 © Copyright Alphaliner 1999-2009
ALPHALINER Weekly Newsletter 2009-Week 16 axs-alphaliner.com – the worldwide reference in liner shipping DELIVERY UPDATES Recent Deliveries April 2009 Name Teu Operator BELUGA NATION 474 N/A CCL NINGBO 698 Centrans O.M. UNDARUM 704 N/A ALASKABORG 964 N/A MARE 974 Contaz VEGA AQUILA 997 N/A EMPIRE 1,440 N/A WARNOW MASTER 1,496 N/A MAERSK WINDHOEK 1,708 Maersk CSCL CALLAO 2,544 CSCL FESCO DIOMID 3,108 MSC ZIM DALIAN 4,253 Zim RUDOLF SCHEPERS 4,256 K Line COSCO FUKUYAMA 4,506 COSCO NYK REMUS 4,922 NYK APL WASHINGTON 6,966 APL XIN DA YANG ZHOU 8,530 CSCL HAMMERSMITH BR. 9,040 K Line CMA CGM HYDRA 10,960 CMA CGM XIN DA YANG ZHOU (8,530 teu) is delivered CSCL is to receive the 8,530 teu XIN DA YANG ZHOU, last of five sister ships ordered by CSCL at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co Ltd (aka Hudong Shipyard) in October 2004. Her completion was delayed by the crash of a gantry crane at the yard last July. Her employment is currently unknown. The XIN DA YANG ZHOU follows the XIN FEI ZHOU, delivered in December. NYK REMUS (4,922 teu) is delivered NYK has received the NYK REMUS, ninth unit in a series of twelve 4,922 teu panamaxes ordered at Hyundai H.I. in two steps in November 2004 and November 2006. The NYK REMUS was initially expected to join the Grand Alliance-Zim new FE-USEC joint service (SCE), but this plan was altered and the ship is believed to join at a later date. She follows the NYK DENEB, delivered one year earlier. RUDOLF SCHEPERS (4,256 teu) joins K Line German shipowner Rudolf Schepers has taken delivery of the 4,256 teu RUDOLF SCHEPERS, first unit in the ‘Jiangsu 4250’ series produced by the Jiangsu Yangzijiang shipyard. The RUDOLF SCHEPERS joins her charterer K Line, which has assigned her to the Far East-ECSA SEAS service run by CMA CGM, Maruba, CSCL and K Line. This service was organized in March 2009 through the merger of the SEAS 1 and SEAS 2 loops. COSCO FUKUYAMA (4,506 teu) is delivered COSCO Container Lines has taken in charge the COSCO FUKUYAMA, fourth of a series of 4,506 teu panamaxes ordered at Samsung by Japanese financing house Itochu Corp. with the backing of a COSCO long term charter. The COSCO FUKUYAMA is assigned to the CKYH FE-USEC 'AWE 2' loop. She follows the COSCO OSAKA, delivered in September CSCL CALLAO (2,544 teu) is delivered Seaspan Corporation has received the 2,544 teu CSCL CALLAO, seventh of eight ships of the 'Jiangsu 2500' design ordered by this owner to the Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Co. The CSCL CALLAO is chartered to CSCL for a period of 12 years. She will start her career on the Far East-Africa service offered by Hapag-Lloyd, CSCL and Maruba (WAX/WSX). She is the 20th unit built in the 'Jiangsu 2500' series and follows the CSCL SAN JOSE, delivered in December. P a g e | 13 © Copyright Alphaliner 1999-2009
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