Supply chain disruption costly for shippers, but helps build resilience, says Maersk
The regularity of ‘black swan’ events has meant unexpected costs for European shippers, according to ...
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Fifty years after first analysing container shipping, consultant McKinsey has called on the industry to conduct another assessment in the light of modern disruptive elements like digitisation. Originally, the firm advised the then British Transport Docks Board (BTDB) to rethink its approach to containerisation.
It seems the message today is much the same. Among its predictions for the next 50 years, it notes autonomous 50,000 teu ships – “perhaps alongside modular, drone-like floating containers” – with volumes between two and five times what they are today. Short-haul intraregional ...
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