Comment / Zim's charter parties and the bunfight to come

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Shortly before its 2021 listing on the New York Stock Exchange, Premium had a look at Zim’s IPO prospectus and sketched an analysis of the Israeli container line in which we highlighted its charter-heavy fleet composition as a major factor in its success, or otherwise.

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