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Martyn Benson
December 15, 2021 at 3:19 pmNew container entrants also have to understand container fleet management and be set up to organise repositioning of surplus units, leasing and M&R control. These are things which are under-estimated by newcomers, who are annoyed when they see their container fleets and costs ballooning because they did not manage these items properly.