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A perfect storm of radical capacity cuts by carriers and US president Donald Trump’s threat to hike tariffs on Chinese goods could see many more containerships laid-up, according to Alphaliner.

Yesterday, The Loadstar reported shipping association BIMCO’s warning that over a quarter of container trade on the ...

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