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If recent history is any guide to our near future, 2015 is shaping up to be a defining year – the container shipping industry is set to be reshaped into four major groupings, setting the commercial landscape for the best part of the next decade; the deployment of increasing numbers of ultra large container vessels will intensify; while congestion at the major import ports of the US and Europe will become a daily reality – a problem that will be ...