Comment / On the wires: Hapag-Lloyd – 11 million reasons to binge watch

Following the release of Q1 21 numbers today by Hapag-Lloyd, a very humble CEO, Rolf Habben Jansen, said in his prepared remarks that:

“While we remain optimistic for 2021 as a whole, the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic and the congested supply chains continue to present a huge challenge to all market participants. We will do everything in our power to help normalise this difficult market environment as quickly as possible and make as much capacity available as possible.

“We will also ...