Restocking ahead of a mighty market crash?
Good Friday
From Multimodal in Birmingham* this week comes one of the best quotes, almost perfectly summing up the mood out there: “Shipping has learned nothing from its past mistakes.”
(*More background is here: “Carriers go cap in hand to ’schmooze’ customers as the wind changes“.)
While that may be true – the jury is still out as we gear up for the upcoming earnings season – all those involved in supply chain, alongside the ocean carriers, had the time to prepare for what ...
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