Comment / Supply chain radar: Amazon vs container shipping lines – you're kidding, right?

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By Alessandro Pasetti

21/01/2019

During the weekend I was rather entertained by AP Møller Mærsk subsidiary Twill’s latest affairs, and Amazon’s future dominance of the supply chain – a game that the Seattle-based behemoth would be crazy to play. And one that, given the signs and moves so far, it does not intend to play at all.

Those who suggest that the company led by star chief executive Jeff Bezos is likely to be a threat for the main logistics players may well have forgotten ...

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