News / Winners and losers in a year of unpredictability – but there was 'magic'

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A clear trend of carriers, both air and ocean, being the ‘financial winners’ of 2024 was highlighted on The Loadstar Podcast, with out-of-pocket shippers dubbed the ‘losers’. 

Chief analyst at Xeneta Peter Sand told The Loadstar Podcast: “One clear, outright financial winner, is the performance of [ocean] carriers. 

“They went from a disastrous outlook with loss-making freight rates to a dream outlook with all the problems and subsequent massively high freight rates,” he explained.  

Mr Sand singled MSC out as a particular winner, ...