Soren Skou2
Group chief executive Soren Skou

Freight forwarders offering supply chain solutions to shippers should have nothing to fear from Maersk’s ambition to be the “UPS of container shipping”.

So said Maersk Line chief executive Soren Skou, speaking at this week’s TPM conference in Long Beach.

He said: “Freight forwarders make up 40-45% of ...

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  • DAVID FERNANDEZ

    March 11, 2019 at 10:15 pm

    I think they do not take into account Maersk’s poor service to the Caribbean area, starting with the fact that they do not allow consolidators to get rates or board them with the excuse that they work only with direct shippers,

    What Maersk CEO believes about it?

  • Christian Moller

    March 17, 2019 at 11:32 pm

    Freight forwarders can’t be sure about this statement. The big shipping lines have to take more control of what’s inside the containers they carry (that is traditionally a forwarders job). Otherwise, they can’t compete against the huge web-portals in the long run.
    Are the shipping lines (including Maersk), doing themselves a big non-favour by leaving utilization of the containers to others? Full capacity of a ship carrying 6000 TEUs (example) is fine, but what if all those TEU’s have 30% or more not utilized capacity inside? Who pays for that in the end?