Comment / Analysis: ZIM must plot a course through some choppy financial waters

Last week I compared the business of owning ships to being a bull in a bullfight. Since then, we have seen one of those rare occasions when the bull emerges from the bloodstained arena victorious – although it was put down afterwards.

The analogy stuck as I turned my attention to Israel’s ZIM Integrated Shipping Services, and the question of whether it is more likely to be sold to a major container shipping line than to be listed on the stock exchange ...