Les opérateurs de porte-conteneurs veulent développer le hors gabarit.
Becalmed container lines eye project cargo as an alternative revenue stream - The Loadstar
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Project logistics and out-of-gauge cargo are the latest specialist shipping targets of container lines looking for alternative revenue streams.
With standard dry container volumes showing flat growth, and low freight rates an increasingly perennial feature of the industry, box carriers are looking to expanding into the more profitable area of out-of-gauge and heavylift cargo.
The move would be similar to their attack on the perishables sector, which began two decades ago and has led to an huge decline in the conventional reefer shipping fleet.
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Out-of-gauge cargo is one of five niche sectors – reefers, dangerous goods, US flag services and cabotage services, the other four – that Hapag-Lloyd is keen to develop. The corporate target is that together they should make-up 15% of the group’s global volumes.
So how realistic is it that container lines will be able to penetrate a sector that has traditionally been the preserve of specialist vessels mainly operating on a tramp basis?
Et pour visualiser ce que « hors gabarit » veut dire, j’aime bien l’illustration choisie par gCaptain
