'Tariff today, gone tomorrow' taking transpac box trade to the brink
Is Trump taking us back to tramp shipping?
¨De soep wordt nooit zo heet gegeten als ze wordt opgediend¨
So notes a Dutch phrase, meaning: “The soup is never eaten as hot as it is served” ? or that things are often not as bad as they initially appear.
It is an optimistic view of what is going on in the US from a man who is now in close proximity to that, both geographically and trade-wise.
Robert van de Weg, ex-KLM Cargo, Atlas Air, Cargolux and AirBridgeCargo, and more recently ...
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