Carriers battle for market share as demand falls and alliance shuffle looms
The shuffling of container shipping alliances in 2025 is prompting liner operators to fight for ...
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AAPL: SHIFTING PRODUCTIONUPS: GIVING UP KNIN: INDIA FOCUSXOM: ANOTHER WARNING VW: GROWING STRESSBA: OVERSUBSCRIBED AND UPSIZEDF: PRESSED ON INVENTORY TRENDSF: INVENTORY ON THE RADARF: CEO ON RECORD BA: CAPITAL RAISING EXERCISEXPO: SAIA BOOSTDSV: UPGRADEBA: ANOTHER JUMBO FUNDRAISINGXPO: SAIA READ-ACROSSHLAG: BOUYANT BUSINESS
In what is possibly the least surprising news in container shipping – other than freight rates are on the slide – Chinese business title Caixin reports today that the government has given formal approval to Cosco and China Shipping to merge, following months of talks. Formal announcements from the partially state-owned companies are expected tomorrow, but the practicalities of the deal will be messy – according to Caixin sources, “China Shipping Group will be transformed into a financing company for the industry and made to hand over all its shipping assets to Cosco. The merger will be extremely complicated and will involve the integration of sales networks, reorganising of shipping routes and transfer of assets at domestic and foreign ports”.
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