Comment / On the wires: A Hapag-Lloyd + ONE merger? Please...

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By Alessandro Pasetti

23/07/2019

“At the first annual meeting of the newly born Italian shipowner association, Assarmatori, the executive chairman of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), Gianluigi Aponte, was asked who might be next in the great wave of container shipping consolidation. The shipping veteran said eventually he expected Japan’s Ocean Network Express (ONE) and Hamburg-based Hapag-Lloyd would one day join forces.” Splash 24/7, 23 July 2019.

A disaster waiting to happen? Hapag-Lloyd has just recently managed to get its house in order, so it could be ready ...

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