Forwarders face profitability test as freight markets look set to stabilise
As global freight markets begin to show signs of stabilisation after months of disruption, the industry’s largest forwarders have shown ...
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Mention “ocean freight” these days and all our internal doomsayers promptly come out for a party, trying to convince everybody of the merit of avoiding “the sinking segment”.
“Blame sentiment. That’s right, confidence totally lost for now,” one investor remarked today, in contrast to earlier feedback – “Smell the blood” – this week from another source on the buy-side.
We have been here before, with the major exponents of the ocean trade, Mærsk and Kuehne + Nagel (K+N), during the weeks before the ...
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