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There is virtually no evidence that the <a>container market</a> is any less competitive, but emerging from a period of unprecedented consolidation, some carriers are beginning to act strategically in their future plans — this for the first time in years. Recent announcements from container carriers indicate business is far from usual and their plans undoubtedly will shake up the industry. The carriers want to forget the past 10 years since the financial crisis, a time their focus went decisively inward, and unsuccessfully so, when they were building mega-ships to achieve economies of scale that only worsened overcapacity and created delays,...

Ocean carriers want to put the past 10 years behind them; it was a time when their focus went inward and unsuccessfully so. Much rebuilding is needed to re-establish credibility with customers. One opportunity is the small shipper market. But can carriers make their services Amazon-like for small shippers?

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Estes wins battle to control sale of Yellow terminals amid tightening LTL capacity 

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Shippers more than tripled their formal complaints in fiscal year 2022, emboldened by the maritime regulator’s sharpened focus on how ocean carriers interact with their customers.

A US bankruptcy court approved a $1.525 billion bid by Estes Express Lines to be the “stalking horse” that sets the floor price for Yellow’s terminals at auction, controlling their sale in November.

Emissions spiked at the ports during the pandemic due to record container volumes and unprecedented supply chain bottlenecks that caused ships to idle at anchorage and trucks to back up at terminal gates.

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