False dawn for box shipping

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In his keynote address at the TOC Container Supply Chain Asia conference in Singapore this week, Tan Hua-Joo, executive consultant at Alphaliner, said that despite Hanjin’s bankruptcy and the high level of scraping last year, he does not see container shipping achieving a supply/demand balance before 2019.

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