News / Carriers go cap in hand to 'schmooze' customers as the wind changes

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Ocean carriers were out in force at the Multimodal show at the NEC Birmingham, UK, this week, schmoozing shippers and forwarders onto their stands and endeavouring to repair the damaged relationships of the past two years.

CMA CGM, ONE, Maersk, Cosco and MSC all had highly populated stands, as did Ellerman City Liners and shortsea specialists Samskip and Containerships.

A year on from the last Multimodal the balance of power has shifted firmly back to shippers, after what forwarders told The Loadstar ...