Re-Air: The Future of International Logistics with Peter Tirschwell and Eric Johnson from IHS Markit & Journal of Commerce
The Future of Supply Chain: a Dynamo Ventures Podcast
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Is There a Fundamental Shift in the Container World?
There are a growing number of people who believe that we are witnessing a fundamental shift in the container world. The carriers have been unable to create value through their pricing and through their services, as a result taking action that benefits themselves on the cost side, rather than benefiting their customers. If you're a container line, the only recourse you have is to control your costs. So what did they do? They slowed down the ships. A container vessel speeds are 25 % below what they were, what they were 15 years ago. In other words, i see that demand is dropping, i can very quickly blank a sailing in industry parlance. And so if you say that a container carrier, that
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