Comment / OceanX: Hong Kong’s fall; Kuehne 'streamlines'; costly FMC cases for MSC

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08/04/2024

Some good news last week: on the US economy that reported strong jobs numbers; on South Asia that was awarded a positive outlook from the World Bank; some rain for the Panama Canal; and the lack of new Houthi attacks for now. Also, finally a break on inflation for Europe was welcome stuff – it has come down quite a lot in March.

The backdrop against all of that, reality check from the world’s largest ...

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