Comment / On the wires: Container shipping on the mend – so what? Now what?

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By Alessandro Pasetti

05/09/2022

A very much talked-about, comprehensive research published by the HSBC analysts on 1 September – subtitled: “Back to earth” – left plenty of room for the imagination of the bulls in finance and the bears in the trade, I reckon, in this unprecedented, abrupt up->down cycle.

In the bigger scheme of things, to sum up where we stand (as you are probably well aware of the narrative), HSBC reminded us that:

“Over the past few quarters, the container shipping sector generated more ...

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