Comment / EXCLUSIVE: There is life after MSC – top gun walks

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“It’s the same old story.”

Customer advisory 

Those were the remarks of senior sources in our marketplace soon after MSC’s release yesterday of… well, I think you have already read the following headline under Premium’s Worth a Read section:

“End of voyage declaration for shipments to the Arabian Gulf – ‘surcharge of $800 per container’”

Right.

Deal-making

By way of background, that piece of great news for the carrier’s profits came soon after DeskOne, on the same day, highlighted side M&A talk:

“DEAL RUMOUR: Singapore’s PSA Group ...