MSC switches bigger box ships to higher-paying trades in 'landmark' move
MSC has switched “essentially all” its megamax vessels from Far East-to-North Europe services to the ...
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gunther ginckels
September 09, 2021 at 2:29 pmDeja Vu. When they have the volumes to justify own feederships than fine to charter or own. If not – meaning on low-volumes corridors – they will have to book it with the existing feederoperators. And than history will repeat itself – feederoperators unable to meet their bunker en port cost obligations, vessels arrested in remote ports and cargo owners once again victims of the bottomless lemonsquezing of the Big-5.