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ONE chief executive expects consortia to enter settling period
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JAPAN's Ocean Network Express (ONE) chief executive Jeremy Nixon said the three major consortia that dominate the deep-sea container trades may undergo a period of "settling down".
"It would be in the interest of everybody to have a period of stability, to get on with moving the freight cleanly and evenly and having no disruptions," he told the recent TPM (Trans-Pacific Maritime) conference in Long Beach.
"Right now, I think we're moving into a slightly more positive phase of the industry in terms of its profitability and a lot of those balance sheets have gotten tidied up," he said.
"People tend to go into consolidation if profitability is bad in the industry or if their balance sheet is under a lot of distress," he said, reported American Shipper.
Mr Nixon said the members of his alliance, THE Alliance, "have a good understanding, good consortia ethics" even if "commercially they fight like cats and dogs".
"A lot of effort has gone in, especially in the last two months, between ONE and Hapag Lloyd and Yang Ming, to ensure that we move the alliance up in terms of shipping reliability when we hit the ground running in April-May," he said.
In the transpacific, Mr Nixon said "we've had a very good 2017, and I think we see that continuing into 2018".
He also said there has been strong growth in the intra-Asia trade, which augers well for deep-sea shipping since it is an indication of consumer product production.
But Mr Nixon expressed concern about infrastructure keeping up if container shipping grew at four to five per cent a year, particularly in the last mile delivery area, trucking and rail, as well as container supply.
He said ONE was working closely with customers to ensure the ONE start-up was smooth.
Asked about Maersk's plan to become an integrated logistics company, Mr Nixon said: "It will be interesting to see how that plays out, but that ONE is not looking to expand into the logistics space, particularly into the 3PL area.
"We're just going to focus very very clearly on the liner products, you know basic Shipping 101. It's about walking before we run."
"It would be in the interest of everybody to have a period of stability, to get on with moving the freight cleanly and evenly and having no disruptions," he told the recent TPM (Trans-Pacific Maritime) conference in Long Beach.
"Right now, I think we're moving into a slightly more positive phase of the industry in terms of its profitability and a lot of those balance sheets have gotten tidied up," he said.
"People tend to go into consolidation if profitability is bad in the industry or if their balance sheet is under a lot of distress," he said, reported American Shipper.
Mr Nixon said the members of his alliance, THE Alliance, "have a good understanding, good consortia ethics" even if "commercially they fight like cats and dogs".
"A lot of effort has gone in, especially in the last two months, between ONE and Hapag Lloyd and Yang Ming, to ensure that we move the alliance up in terms of shipping reliability when we hit the ground running in April-May," he said.
In the transpacific, Mr Nixon said "we've had a very good 2017, and I think we see that continuing into 2018".
He also said there has been strong growth in the intra-Asia trade, which augers well for deep-sea shipping since it is an indication of consumer product production.
But Mr Nixon expressed concern about infrastructure keeping up if container shipping grew at four to five per cent a year, particularly in the last mile delivery area, trucking and rail, as well as container supply.
He said ONE was working closely with customers to ensure the ONE start-up was smooth.
Asked about Maersk's plan to become an integrated logistics company, Mr Nixon said: "It will be interesting to see how that plays out, but that ONE is not looking to expand into the logistics space, particularly into the 3PL area.
"We're just going to focus very very clearly on the liner products, you know basic Shipping 101. It's about walking before we run."