News / Liner integrators – Taiwan’s big three have 'no ambitions in that direction'

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Taiwan’s big three liner operators, Evergreen, Yang Ming and Wan Hai, say they will focus on their core business of container shipping and are not eyeing 3PL acquisitions, as MSC, Maersk and CMA CGM have done.

Evergreen and Yang Ming hold regular conferences with stock analysts and journalists and their management executives were asked this month if they hoped to buy logistics companies.

In December, MSC, Maersk and CMA CGM, the three largest liner operators, acquired, respectively, Brazilian logistics company Log-in Logistica, ...