Comment / Supply chain radar: Here's why OOCL's growth rate sends a mixed signal to all box lines

The devil is not in the detail with OOCL, the container line arm under the Orient Overseas International Lines umbrella ultimately controlled by Cosco Shipping. As usual at this stage of “disclosure”, none has been made – so, to unearth any meaningful information was virtually mission impossible.

But some headline numbers had the dwindling bulls banging on with much fanfare about best-case scenarios for all the others. Is that desperation we hear?

As you might know, OOCL opens the earnings season with ...