WSJ: Shipping tycoons discuss separating Panama ports from Hutchison deal
WSJ reports: The billionaires behind the MSC shipping empire are discussing carving out two Panama ports ...
“They are focused on infrastructure more so than logistics, and you can’t escape the ones sitting on infrastructure.”
Those were the remarks of a senior executive in our marketplace*, commenting on the latest deal disclosed by MSC’s Medlog in transport and logistics, Maritime Transport of the UK.
(*One who, incidentally, believes Mediterranean Shipping Company, aka MSC, is by far the preferred choice in container shipping due to a slew of factors.)
Those words of wisdom were quite timely earlier this month.
They had a ...
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