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The Ocean Alliance is facing a profound network shake-up as its members prepare to welcome a large tranche of ultra-large containership (ULCV) capacity next year.

Yesterday saw the unveiling of the 2018 service network for its members, Cosco, CMA CGM, Evergreen and OOCL.

While its rivals – the 2M and ...

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  • Gary Ferrulli

    December 26, 2017 at 4:07 pm

    No doubt with new tonnage being introduced, some disruption, but if industry survived April 2017, then same will occur. The questions remaining are with the extreme top heavy carrier industry emerging, will it influence decision making, especially in pricing? The new capacity CAN be managed if they chose to do so.
    The decision is in their hands, it remains to be seen what they do with that decision making power.

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