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Announcement: MSC is ready to deal with RICKMERS bankruptcy container ship was detained!

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  • Release Date:2017-06-23

Announcement: MSC is ready to deal with RICKMERS bankruptcy container ship was detained!




The bankrupt owner of the German shipowner, RICKMERS GROUP, could say that many shipping companies are lying on the gun, one of the world's leading shipping companies, including a number of large shipping companies.

And with the Hanjin bankruptcy of the warning, foreign trade and freight forwarding enterprises are also worried about their goods will be affected, and recently, MSC in order to appease customers, but also in its official website issued a notice, the situation was explained, and said the relevant circumstances Developed a contingency plan.


Announcement mainly mentioned the following points:

1.MSC currently rented RICKMERS GROUP container ship a total of three, namely:

JOHN RICKMERS (1850TEU)

SANDY RICKMERS (1216TEU)

MSC FLORIDA (4455TEU)

The lease for the last two ships will expire in September this year.

2. With regard to the ship's cargo, the MSC has developed a contingency plan. Once these ships have problems, the MSC can make a quick response to minimize cargo delays.

3. For those cargoes on RICKMERS GROUP container ships leased by MSC partners, MSC is ready to work with these shipping companies to reduce the delay in the shipment.

MSC's main partner, 2M another member Maersk can be said to be the most affected, the total rental of 11 RICKMERS GROUP container ship.

According to RICKMERS GROUP official website information, which also contains 13000TEU large container ship, MSC may also have the goods on these ships.

The MSC has said that once the problem will be with these shipping companies to reduce cargo delays, Maersk also said that the possible problems have been developed emergency measures.

MSC official website announcement as follows:

Further to the announced insolvency of the Rickmers Group MSC advises it has three vessels from Rickmers under time charter the MV John Rickmers, MV Sandy Rickmers, and MV MSC Florida. The latter two ships are in any case, scheduled for redelivery to Rickmers in September 2017

MSC is actively monitoring the situation and is ready to act quickly should a creditor take action against any of the three vessels. MSC is preparing contingency plans and will act as quickly as possible to minimizeise the delays to customer's cargo.

Where MSC has slot charter agreements with other shipping lines who are operating Rickmers-owned vessels and MSC have containers on board, MSC is ready to cooper with those lines to minimise the delays to cargo if any action is taken off those vessels.

If you have any changes relating to this matter, please contact your local MSC office.