X-Press Feeders

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X-Press Feeders/Sea Consortium
Company type Privately held company
Industry Marine transportation
Container shipping
Founded1972;52 years ago (1972)
Headquarters
Singapore
Area served
Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe
Key people
Tim Hartnoll (Executive Chairman) [1]
Services Feeder Services
Website www.x-pressfeeders.com
newest class of ships: Eco Maestro Eco Maestro in the Kiel Canal 19.jpg
newest class of ships: Eco Maestro

X-Press Feeders/Sea Consortium is a container shipping group operating out of Singapore. It is the 14th largest operator by capacity according to the Top 100 ranking for 2021 published by the maritime portal Alphaliner. [7] It feeds transshipment hubs and ports in East and Southeast Asia, Indian subcontinent, the Persian Gulf, Mediterranean and Europe. [8]

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History

Sea Consortium/X-Press Feeders was founded in January 1972. The Singapore-based group is privately held. [9] X-Press Feeders is run as a shipper owned container (SOC) carrier and does not own boxes. [10] It operates a fleet of 110 vessels of which are 43 owned. [11] [1]

Alphaliner, a maritime transport portal in its 2021 Top 100 ranking, has placed X-Press Feeders as the 14th largest container carrier in the world, with a weekly capacity of 134,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). [7]

In April 2021, the group was reported to have ordered four 7,000 TEU ships from Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding of China in an upsizing of the fleet. Its largest ship up to then was around 4,400 TEUs. [12]

Separately the group had placed orders for four 3,700 TEU box ships with China's Zhoushan Changhong International Shipyard in 2018. [13] Two of the vessels, MV X-Press Mekong and MV X-Press Pearl were delivered in 2021.

Acquisitions

X-Press Feeders acquired TransAtlantic AB, a subsidiary of Swedish supply vessel operator Viking Supply Ships in 2015. The transaction involved TransFeeder North Line, TransBothnia Container Line and TransFeeder South Line, with an annual container volume of about 105,000 TEUs. [14]

Incidents

On May 20, 2021, MV X-Press Pearl , a 37,000 DWT container ship with a capacity of 2,700 TEUs, caught fire while anchored off Colombo Harbour in Sri Lanka, and later sank. [15] Debris and flotsam led to environmental damage triggering a criminal probe amid fears of an oil spill. [16]

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  3. ↑ "Eco Maestro Vessel" (JPG).
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  7. 1 2 "Alphaliner Top 100". alphaliner.axsmarine.com. Alphaliner. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
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