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    Cosmic Changes

    October 11, 2017

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    Tom Bebbington

    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, and the easier it becam...

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    All Change.......continued!

    November 7, 2016

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    Tom Bebbington

    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 shareholders that the current wa...

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    All Change......finally?

    October 22, 2016

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    Tom Bebbington

    I have been involved in the liner shipping industry, on the operational side of the business, for almost 20 years now. I think it would be fair to say that we are currently going through one of the most interesting periods of time in the history of the industry. Change is a painful thing, but container shipping is way past the point where it needs to change.

    It’s long been known that carriers are not particularly profitable, there is too much capacity in the market and consolidation is desperatel...

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    October 26, 2018

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