Box lines – billions ready to burn in market share fights
…rather than M&A
“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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