Comment / Market Insight: Pacific International Lines – a new end-to-end strategy that perfectly fits CMA CGM's grand plan

The Pacific International Lines (PIL) story gets more exciting with each passing day.

In fact, alongside extraordinary corporate activity, possibly involving a tie-up with a larger carrier – which remains a distinct possibility but is still far from being my base-case scenario – its strategy has a new twist, I hear.

Changing skin 

After Mr Vessel and Mr Ocean shared their preliminary thoughts on previous deal talk and what could be next, other sources close to PIL’s thinking – let’s call them Sir ...