'Weakened' Maersk paying a heavy price for its lack of fleet growth
MSC is flawlessly emulating dethroned rival Maersk’s old strategy by aggressively expanding its fleet and ...
Plans to increase capacity of the Middle Corridor rail freight route from China to Europe, as reported by The Loadstar yesterday, are likely to be far more important to Central Asian shippers than the European importers using it as an alternative to sea freight.
“Land will never be an alternative to sea, or even air, on the Asia-Europe trades,” Verspucci Maritime’s Lars Jensen told delegates at last month’s TOC Europe event in Rotterdam.
“I’m sorry, but it’s a niche – these rail ...
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Michal Pastwa
July 10, 2024 at 11:30 amqt: A 1km-long train can carry 100 teu, 200 teu if it is double-stacked, which means a 1,000km train would equal one ship./ unqt.
100.000 teu vessels are not available, yet. A 200km train could be compared with one ship, based on above calculation.