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This week’s inauguration of the new Baltic Hub 3 terminal at the Polish container hub ...
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Gary Ferrulli
May 26, 2020 at 4:33 pmThe headline is like stating the date, it’s pretty obvious. If carriers lower their rates they will lose money. The $23. Billion is a very speculative amount, but reflects about what they lost in 2009. But their actions of the last 18-20 months of managing capacity to the markets has kept them from loosing huge amounts, some well managed companies making money, others (usually government affiliated) losing.
If that process remains in place, as an industry they are likely to make money. It comes down to management decision making.