The European Shippers Council has joined the Global Shippers Forum to promote the findings of new research and analysis commissioned by GSF into the impacts of new ‘alliances’ being formed by container shipping lines and the growing use of so-called mega-ships (those with more than 18,000 teu capacity).
Shippers fear that the contraction of the shipping market into a very small number of tightly knit alliances, and the use of much larger vessels will reduce their choice of carrier and the quality of the services delivered as carriers operating