Comment / OceanX: All eyes on forecasting complexity and the state of FreightTech

ID 323734061 © Paradee Paradee | Dreamstime.com

Fully in the budget season, we bump into forecasts everywhere we look. 

And that job has become a lot harder, as the number of factors influencing businesses and especially our industry has become increasingly complex to deal with and predict.

Changes 

For one, container shipping used be easier to look at, as supply was pretty much given by the new-vessel-delivery schedule and the to-be-expected scrapping rate defining the supply side – while global trade growth in the form of GDP, plus ...