Spot rates ex-Asia still falling, despite USEC congestion, with more blanks
Container spot freight rates on the main trades out of Asia continued to fall this ...
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By Alex Lennane
In a perhaps surprising development, Lufthansa and MSC appear to have been rebuffed in their joint attempt to take on 80% of ITA Airways – while Delta and AF-KLM (now connected, of course, to CMA CGM) have been picked instead. The preferred group, led by US private equity fund Certares, hopes to take on 60% of the carrier. Lufthansa, meanwhile, said it still thought its offer was the “better solution”. Reuters reports.
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