Industry starting to reap benefits of AI – but risks grow alongside
2024 is the year organisations will begin deriving business value from AI, according to consultancy ...
TFII: SOLID AS USUALMAERSK: WEAKENINGF: FALLING OFF A CLIFFAAPL: 'BOTTLENECK IN MAINLAND CHINA'AAPL: CHINA TRENDSDHL: GROWTH CAPEXR: ANOTHER SOLID DELIVERYMFT: HERE COMES THE FALLDSV: LOOK AT SCHENKER PERFORMANCEUPS: A WAVE OF DOWNGRADES DSV: BARGAIN BINKNX: EARNINGS OUTODFL: RISING AND FALLING AND THEN RISING
TFII: SOLID AS USUALMAERSK: WEAKENINGF: FALLING OFF A CLIFFAAPL: 'BOTTLENECK IN MAINLAND CHINA'AAPL: CHINA TRENDSDHL: GROWTH CAPEXR: ANOTHER SOLID DELIVERYMFT: HERE COMES THE FALLDSV: LOOK AT SCHENKER PERFORMANCEUPS: A WAVE OF DOWNGRADES DSV: BARGAIN BINKNX: EARNINGS OUTODFL: RISING AND FALLING AND THEN RISING
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 traffic will increase, it suggests, while container flows within the Far East will remain huge. The second-most significant tradelane may link the region to Africa, with a stopover in South Asia. It also predicts there may be just three or four major container shipping companies.
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