Cosmic Changes
The Liner Shipping Industry is arguably, undergoing the biggest period of changes in it's history. The larger carriers get larger, the smaller carriers become more niche carriers and then there are those stuck in the middle. Think of the Container Industry a bit like our early solar system. In the beginning there was nothing but dust. Out of this dust, rocks began to be formed and would clump together. The larger the rocks grew, the greater their gravitational pull became, an
All Change.......continued!
When I started writing for this website, I did so because I could see we were in the starting blocks of the industry finally beginning to consolidate and reduce the number of global carriers to a more realistic level. Billions of dollars go through this industry each year (the Top 3 carriers each have revenues of about $25bn per year) but the returns on those investments are pitiful and it is finally beginning to dawn on both the management of the carriers and the shareholder
