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Friday, 27 August 2021
Financial Times
- Soren Skou: Maersk’s shy helmsman charts a greener courseIndustrial group’s chief takes lead role in tackling shipping industry’s climate challenge
- Who’s really feeling the shipping cost squeeze? The bulk of the burden is falling on smaller customers as shipping freight rates decommoditise.
The Guardian
- How megaships cause mega problemsWhen the Ever Given became stuck in the Suez canal in March 2021, people woke up to the sheer size of these megaships. But these vessels, which now dominate container shipping, have been quietly ballooning in size for more than 50 years, and even doubling in capacity every few years since the turn of the millennium. The bigger they have grown, the more problems they have caused for consumers and producers, problems that extend much further than getting stuck
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