News / Lines seem 'indifferent' to shipper problems as new alliances settle in

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Shipping lines in the new alliance structure seem “indifferent to certain problems of backhaul shippers”, according to new research.

In its quarterly Container Freight Rates & Shipping Market Outlook, Drewry suggests the full impact of the new alliance structures is still to be seen, with some in the market seeing “a kind of hierarchy with the 2M being the strongest, certainly financially”, followed by the Ocean Alliance, with THE Alliance being “perhaps the weakest grouping financially”.

Neil Dekker, director for container research, said there had been “an awful lot of ...