Hapag-Lloyd's box tracker will 'close logistics blind spots'
With two-thirds of its 2.9m teu container fleet fitted with Orbcomm and Nexxiot tracking devices, ...
And so another week on the rollercoaster ride of container shipping begins with the breaking news that the three-month long merger talks between German shipping lines Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Sud have come to naught. A statement from Hapag-Lloyd’s majority owners, the Albert Ballin consortium, led by Kuehne + Nagel chairman Klaus-Michael Kuehne, said that the two companies had been unable to agree terms, and Hamburg-Sud owner, the Oetker family, had asked for negotiations to be abandoned. Will Hapag-Lloyd now embark on its trail towards an IPO?
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