Seaport Consultants - Newsletter
    Number 6 - March 2009

The world economy and container trade tank 

What are the causes, outlooks and appropriate industry responses?

by Terence Smyth and Gordon Payne

Seaport Consultants Canada Inc.

Précis

The world is now in quite a financial mess. We prepared this brief newsletter to summarize our understanding of the situation and what it means for the container business. We conclude with some thoughts on how container industry players could respond to the crisis and even take advantage of it.

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