Recently, I read an article over at Supply Chain Brain titled: Economics 101: Did Ocean Carriers Miss The Lesson and it really brought home just how "sick" this industry is right now. The critical fact is capacity is growing by about 7% and demand may grow by 1% if we are lucky. The ships are already underutilized, new "mega ships" (like the Maersk 18,000TEU "Triple - E" ship) are coming on line and demand does not seem to be growing. Add that they have parked what they can and have "slow steamed" as much as they can (short of just drifting in the current) and I think you see this is the makings for a bad industry.
The good news is if you are in procurement for ocean freight you should be delivering great results to your company bottom line. Oh, and those GRI's which seem to pop up every now and then - you can ignore them thank you. They cannot possibly stick.
If you have a minute.. watch below as the behemoth is being built:
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