Blankety Blank – a commercial or structural game?
Trans-pacific and Suez hold the answers
Blog summarising the major issues facing the world’s container shipping lines. It asks some interesting questions, particularly of the confusing, contradictory shifts in freight rates and capacity management, while concluding that a) lines have no one but themselves to blame for the present predicament; and b) they really need to change their mindset.
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