Maritime Strategies International (MSI) estimates that deliveries will total 717,900 twenty-foot equivalent units in Q2 2023, up 62% sequentially from the current quarter, with deliveries rising to 764,800 TEUs in Q3 2023.
There are I think six haulers like the Ever Given (the one that got stuck in the Suez Canal a couple years ago), each with a capacity of over 20,000 TEUs. Oh wait, 11 of them, sez here. Gross tonnage of each of those (which also indicates carrying capacity) is over 217,000 tons. To put that in perspective, the Titanic dry weight was something a little north of 52,000 tons. Those big-assed Japanese battleships of WWII had something like 73,000 GT (carrying capacity for crew, ammo, fuel, etc, only about 10,000 tons), or about one-third of each of those Ever ships.
Quick, Joe! Take credit for it, and then blame the supply chain jams on Trump again.