Liners cut long-haul sailings, but 'it won't be enough' to stop rates tumbling
MSC and the Ocean and Premier container shipping alliances are withdrawing some transpacific and Asia-Europe ...
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Hong Kong’s status as one of the world’s premier container gateways and transhipment hubs is now well on the way to becoming a thing of the past, after its exclusion as a port of call from a range of east-west alliance services.
Last week, the remaining members of THE Alliance – ONE, Yang Ming and HMM – took the novel step of announcing the VSA’s planned transpacific network for 2025, with eagle-eyed liner analysts noting that Hong Kong had been removed ...
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