The international car shipping industry has been a tough business during the past 2 years of rough financial weather for the business of moving cars to market. New ocean car carriers are being ordered, built and delivered, but prospects for long-term work for new ocean car carriers are slim at present, unless you already have business dealings that will keep any new ships you order busy shipping cars to destinations around the world. Shipping lines that have good negotiators and have the necessary business connections could find short-term work to fill-the-void between now and the day the market begins to turn around and they find long-term work hauling cars.
Dutch shipowner Vroon currently operates around 7 ocean auto transport carriers, most of them are new and were built between 2009 and 2010. According to sources in the car hauling industry Vroon currently operates their vessels on short-term contracts due to the fact that long-term contracts are difficult to find in the current market.
Vroon is also expecting their newest ocean car carrier to be arriving around the second week of June, according to the latest reports from shipbuilders at Hyundai Mipo. Called the Imola Express, this 3,500-ceu Pure Car Carrier (PCC) is presently without scheduled work, but Vroon is expecting to find work shipping cars to market in the following weeks, according to officials at the company.
Vroon is also an active ship owner in other sectors of the transport industry, like bulkers and containerships, and according to the sources Vroon has recently jumped into the bitumen tanker sector with an order for 4 new bitumen tankers at the same Hyundai Mip Dockyards.
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