Transpacific trade – follow my lead
All eyes on the next move
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Container shipping lines will never be able to return to sustainable profitability unless they stop thinking like “bean-counters” and begin to invest in skilled staff.
At last week’s TOC Container Supply Chain conference in Hamburg, Franck Kayser, a veteran container shipping industry executive whose latest role is senior director operations and logistics at Europe-West Africa shipping specialist NileDutch, launched a lacerating attack on the mindset that pervades many box shipping carriers.
“The commercial acumen in liner companies has completely disappeared. This has ...
Comment on this article
Peter Parker
June 22, 2016 at 1:26 amAnother poorly written article – grammar wise. You need to re-read your articles before publishing. Maybe a native English speaker should cross check?
Alex Lennane
June 22, 2016 at 9:22 amApologies again. Typos corrected.
Daniel Lashinski
June 30, 2016 at 7:41 pmIt is indeed sad and the captain is entirely correct about price driving out service in a race to the bottom. What I do not understand is how companies like Xeneta are permitted to allow shippers to disclose confidential information to the detriment of carriers and ultimately the shipping public.