Ultra large box ships and the distorted shipping cycle
Received wisdom – are the wheels coming off?
Soft snapshot corner for a mid-week update from a lazy fellow today, with a bit of emphasis, uh-oh, on the latest M&A developments for two of the largest European carriers chasing mighty Geneva-based MSC, the global market leader by capacity.
In case you’ve been living on the moon for a quinquennium, and are blind on the latest vertical consolidation push by certain carriers “threatening” to steal market share from asset-light logistics players, here are the key findings mostly sourced from a ...
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