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Andy Lane
January 23, 2018 at 2:31 pmMike, after the Maersk/P&ONL merger (Feb 2006) the aggregated market share fell by maybe 8%, which is not so uncommon. The Africa and Oceania trades suffered a bit due to the new huge market share, and some TransPacific was lost due to targeted pricing by competitors. Nothing really was lost due to operational transition.
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Albeit through different Customers, this was regained within a reasonable time frame.
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I think that ONE will fair better, as a lot of Japanese shippers will be loyal to what they are used to, but whatever volume might get lost, can be recovered in a multitude of different ways.