https://www.universalcargo.com/maersk-expects-carrier-competition-to-shrink-to-3-global-companies/ Freight Forwarding Company Fri, 20 Oct 2017 14:39:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.9 https://www.universalcargo.com/maersk-expects-carrier-competition-to-shrink-to-3-global-companies/#comment-178732 Fri, 20 Oct 2017 14:39:55 +0000 https://www.universalcargo.com/?p=8326#comment-178732 Three will be tough; today the top 5 make up 63% of the global capacity and by 2020 that will be 68% according to Alphaliner figures.
Then by 2020 numbers 7 through 10 combined will have less capacity than Maersk. So it is a very top heavy industry getting more so.
But 3? Who are the likely candidates for sale or merging? Anyone who fills in a “hole” deemed important to the global enterprise, some
logic to that. Beyond that, just getting one more off of the board?
The wild card will be governments who think they should have their own commercial navy, used to many of those and most have gone away.
Will another one or two emerge? No real reason for it absent politics and influence – who wants that?

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