Global feeder operators are having their heads turned by huge offers for their owned tonnage and chartered-in ships from cash-rich ocean carriers and start-up liner companies.
Indeed, the increased cost of maritime services has given rise to yet another forwarder setting up its own carrier.
The flexible business models of the traditionally asset-light feeder sector are being forced to change as containership owners demand enormous daily hire rate increases and much longer …
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