Miami-headquartered online freight forwarder iContainers has warned that the launch next week of the new shipping alliances will result in a shortage of options for freight forwarders.
The company’s co-founder Carlos Hernández raised concerns over the impact of the shipping companies’ reshuffle reducing shipping options which were already affected by the recent collapse of South Korean carrier Hanjin Shipping.
He said: “Given the sharing of vessels and routes, this basically translates into multiple carriers having the exact same schedule. Instead of having seven or eight carriers offering a sailing of their own, we will perhaps only be getting three.
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