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How Can Shipping Companies Turn That Capacity Into Capability?

There are very few alternatives to sending things half way round the world. Heleton, for example, o upscale exercise bikes, has been putting those bikes on to planes rather than sending them by ships. Half the capacity for air freight is provided in the belly holes of passenger jets. And covid has had a devastating effect on the number of international passenger flights that are flying. So here too, prices ave risen and capacity is limited. Company such af home depot and wall mark, big american retailers, have chartered ships directly. But with rates going up, shipping companies must be swimming in cash. Why can't they turn that into capacity? The containd shipping companies are absolutely flushed

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