Overcapacities as well as falling freight and charter rates are features characterising the current market situation in container shipping. Global strategic alliances or in other words the restructuring of the container liner industry are other indicators for the phenomenal changes gaining momentum. The latter trend towards consolidation and concentration, resulting from the need to improve efficiency and profitability, has impacts on the whole transport network including ports and their hinterland connections as well as feeder shipping. In the following analysts of the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) not only inform on supply/demand indicators but also on changes in the transportation structure and future development prospects.
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