Hapag-Lloyd chief executive Rolf Habben Jansen is not planning to downgrade the size of containerships that his company is seeking to order.

But the head of the German liner operator sees no logic in pushing ahead with a newbuilding order for large containerships in the current climate.

"We are still looking at the newbuilding programme, but we do not intend to put an order out somewhere in the next few weeks," Habben Jansen said in a virtual press conference today.