'Near-shoring shift' a more serious threat than bigger ships/smaller loads paradox

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An opinion piece last week in The Loadstar responded to the likelihood that a series of ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs, or more recently dubbed by Alphaliner Megamaxes) are now under construction in China and South Korea.

And it set it beside another news story which predicted the era of the full-container-load (FCL) was coming to an end, and posed the perfectly reasonable question: how will carriers overcome the paradox of building bigger ships for smaller consignments?

But I believe there may be ...