Despite the goal of newly consolidated carriers to reassert themselves to create value in the supply chain, rate volatility and how that alienates key customers and further strengthens non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs) may permanently limit carriers’ role to provide wholesale capacity. In other words, some are suggesting that carriers are digging themselves into a hole they may never be able to climb out of.
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