Comment / DeskOne: Eyes on the payout

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From Multimodal in Birmingham* this week comes one of the best quotes, almost perfectly summing up the mood out there: “Shipping has learned nothing from its past mistakes.”

(*More background is here: “Carriers go cap in hand to ’schmooze’ customers as the wind changes“.)

While that may be true – the jury is still out as we gear up for the upcoming earnings season – all those involved in supply chain, alongside the ocean carriers, had the time to prepare for what ...