What’s the Herfin point?

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By Alex Lennane

24/04/2012

With shippers recently glued to watching the remarkably consistent rate increases implemented by shipping lines on the Asia-Europe trade, in this amusing column Mike Weir discovers how much market power the lines actually exert, using the ridiculously named Herfindahl-Hirschman Index.

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