The world’s biggest container shipper, Maersk Line, is increasingly serving Latin America and Africa with ships sailing directly from Asia to tap accelerating growth in those markets, the Financial Times said.
“The tonnage [of new ship capacity] that we have on order and will get delivered over the next two years is very much suited for the South America and Africa market, so that’s the direction that we already are moving,” a Maersk Line executive told the Financial Times.
“It’s really the west and the old economies that have a growth issue,” he said. “It’s not the rest of the world.”