News / Concerns voiced over mega-alliances, but shippers admit there are positives

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Shippers attending TPM 2014 in Long Beach this week are uneasy about the implications for their business from the rush by ocean carriers to form bigger and bigger alliances.

However, in most cases they believe they that the positives outweigh the negatives.

Indeed Klaus Schnede, manager marine, air & facilities procurement at Eastman Chemical, said he welcomed the P3 alliance on the basis that he expected the dismal schedule reliability of carriers to improve, with Maersk Line dragging its P3 partners up ...