Liners unveil Asia-Europe FAK price hikes to arrest steady rate decline
Container shipping lines are looking for a hike in Asia-Europe spot freight rates, announcing a ...
In what is perhaps the clearest signal that Maersk intends to compete with some of its largest customers – the freight forwarding segment – an interview with The Wall St Journal reports chief executive Soren Skou as saying he wants increased sales from non-ocean activities. To be fair to the company, it is on the face of it a pretty straightforward risk management strategy, given that currently 80% of its revenues are from container shipping. Nevertheless, his words are likely to send a chill don the spine of some freight forwarders: ““We want to do that. We want to run the warehouse, receive the goods, stuff it into containers, ship it to the U.S. and provide a data feed that says the yellow swim trunks are in that box,” Mr. Skou said. “Then we take it out of the containers,” and send the goods by trucks to distribution centres closer to the final delivery point.”
Etail by air – here to stay or on a short shelf life?
HMM sees opportunities in Hapag-Lloyd’s exit from THE Alliance
How crazy is this: DSV goes hostile on Expeditors or CH Robinson?
Increasing scrutiny could stall rise of ecommerce platforms, as TikTok faces US ban
Liners unveil Asia-Europe FAK price hikes to arrest steady rate decline
Legal battle heats up over 'unseaworthy' and 'reckless' MV Dali
Another strong month for US ports as container flows continue to rise
Alex Lennane
email: [email protected]
mobile: +44 7879 334 389
During August 2023, please contact
Alex Whiteman
email: [email protected]
Alessandro Pasetti
email: [email protected]
mobile: +44 7402 255 512
Comment on this article
Ajay Kudale
June 30, 2019 at 2:24 pmWell I think plenty of opportunities are there if you have the right market data. It’s all about the finding good partners seeking same growth.
Business insights always help have the right views on the emerging opportunities & possibilities to about it.
Thank you,
Ajay Kudale India