Comment / On the wires: The pointless Maersk vs MSC race

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By Gavin van Marle

24/02/2021

A headline in online shipping publication Splash247 screamed earlier this week: “MSC topples Maersk at the top of the box rankings”.

It is not the first time I have either read, or written, a headline of that sort – just less than a decade ago the same story did the rounds after a liner analyst colleague at Lloyd’s List Intelligence concluded that after some charter deals MSC would be taking Maersk’s crown.

(And then again. And again. And again. Every two or ...

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AP Moller - Maersk Calculating Capacity Intra-Asia intra-Europe MSC On the wires The ULCV knock-on effect Canada CMA CGM Port of Montreal Strike inaction

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