Box lines – billions ready to burn in market share fights
…rather than M&A
… and Hapag-Lloyd teases. Oh, well.
What a week we’ve just left behind, with so much meat on the (logistics) bone that I almost struggle to decide where to start.
Almost.
Here’s the podium and other T&L-related happenings.
1) Gold Medal: MSC leads capital deployment race
Faced with the question “what to do with all that money”, the Aponte family takes a new approach and goes into healthcare… that’s almost Amazon-style now.
Read: “Consortium to buy South Africa hospitals firm Mediclinic for $4.49 billion“.
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