Particularly striking in this regard is the rise of the dimensionally largest ships, the so-called Ultra Large Container Vessels or ULCVs. Since 2010, it can be observed that the number of container ships is only increasing rather slowly, while the average ship size in terms of nominal capacity continues to rise almost linearly. During this time, the number of container ships also increased sharply, at times at double-digit annual rates.
Especially in the years prior to the global financial and economic crisis of 2008/2009, annual increases in total capacity were almost continuously above 10%. Over the past 25 years, the slot capacity of the global container ship fleet has increased continuously as a consequence of a steadily growing number of vessels that have become larger and larger on average.
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