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China Cosco Shipping executive vice president Wang Haimin has rubbished the idea that carriers can be sole service providers of end-to-end container supply chains.
Mr Wang (pictured) drew comparison between competitors Maersk and CMA CGM’s push to become fully integrated container logistics providers and, at the other end of the spectrum, MSC and Hapag-Lloyd’s apparent focus on pure port-to-port shipping.
“Cosco is somewhere in the middle,” he told delegates at the TPM Asia conference in Shenzhen this week.
He believed: “One solution provider ...
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Comment on this article
Aaryav Gupta
October 12, 2019 at 5:47 pmAgreed, there are too many blocks to be fitted correctly in a complete supply chain each one with its own requirements and challenges. Although the idea of integrated solution is extremely noble but it has to be extremely flexible, robust and agile to be successful.