Few positive indicators for liner carriers

Transportation

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Liner carriers will likely have to increase their strategic use of slow steaming and idling of ships to overcome supply side pressures, a new report from Drewry Maritime Research suggests. Drewry’s annual Container Market Review and Forecast 2012/13 offers that the industry will remain in transition mode until at least 2014 and probably 2015. “How well the operators manage capacity deployment during this time will largely determine where freight rates and overall prof...

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