Having switched their focus to the local intermodal sector to compensate for the loss of mainstream ISObusiness, European box builders now face a drop in demand for swap body and palletwide equipment
After reviving slightly in recent years, Europe's container manufacturing industry has once again gone into decline. European container/swap body production is expected to fall in 2002 to a little over 90,000 TEU, its lowest ever level, with capacity greatly outstripping demand....
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Approx 4150 words from WorldCargo News, July 2002,
page 43.
