News / Financial odds still appear to be stacked against box shipping's major players

28/10/2013

Credit rating agency Moody’s has characterised container shipping’s problem as a combination of “high cyclicality”, exacerbated by “fierce competition between the main players” and “high reliance on short-term contracts”. Together, these factors conspire to prevent the sector achieving any form of sustainable profitability.

These concerns were ...

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