But the world's container fleet capacity is expected to grow by 9.5% this year alone, as Maersk and others receive the ships they ordered years ago.
Costa Concordia represents about 1.5% of Carnival's overall fleet capacity.
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The new Exelon would also operate the largest U.S. nuclear fleet with output capacity of 19, 000 megawatts. (Read Japan Will Struggle To Meet Electricity Demand).
's Baltimore Water Taxi lost 30% of overall capacity in its fleet of 14 boats, owner Michael McDaniel said.
His Oslo-based Frontline operates 62 crude oil carriers, the world's largest fleet, with a total capacity of 110 million bbl.
There are many ships that have 150-ton lifting capacity in the modern fleet, and where as years ago we traditionally called things over 150-ton as heavy lift cargo, that story is different today.
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Among those worries are the fact the UK has an ageing RAF transport fleet which is stretched almost to capacity until replacements are ready, while the ability to fly warplanes from a British aircraft carrier will not be regenerated for almost a decade.
In addition to calling for a 50 percent reduction in the capacity of the industrial fishing fleet, Greenpeace seeks the elimination of government subsidies and a moratorium on the construction of large fishing vessels.
"On the margin, a new nuclear plant is not a cheap addition, but adding to the capacity of our existing nuclear fleet is quite economical--about half the price of a new nuclear plant, " Rowe says.
They envisioned employing a fleet of drones with a two kilogram payload capacity and a six mile flight-range.
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These will have 100 times as much broadcasting power as members of the existing fleet, and ten times as much data capacity for these sorts of services.
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Ryanair will use the new jets to increase the size of its fleet to over 400 planes, and grow capacity by more than 100 million passengers per year across Europe by the end of 2018.
The Center also notes that a decision to place greater emphasis on sea-lift should translate into a commitment both to additional transport capacity and to the preservation of a larger naval fleet needed to secure the sea lines of communication over which such transports must move.
"It may be a challenge for Royal Caribbean to bring on new capacity smoothly without cannibalization of business from older vessels in the fleet, " notes James Winchester, analyst at Lazard Freres.
However, the industry is suffering from excess capacity especially in the standard specifications sector that is driving down fleet utilization levels as well as the pricing of drilling contracts despite the improving demand outlook.
The reason is that capacity has increased, explains Michael Lewis of Deutsche Bank: the worldwide bulk fleet is expected to grow by 16% this year.
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