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Ocean carriers are busy cascading bigger ships on to secondary trades in order to absorb some of their surplus tonnage as they prepare to receive more ultra-large tonnage from the shipyards.

Every potential growth opportunity is being assessed in carrier networks to redeploy the remaining smaller ...

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