Evergreen shipping: Come back to life

After a year of downturn, Evergreen Maritime Chairman Zhang  Zhengyong that the international maritime industry has six industry  mergers or bankruptcy, so that shipping companies and customers have new  ideas and mentality, this year the industry is recovery.

    Zhang Zhengyong said that last year the maritime sector is very  different year, quite low, can be said to be bad years.  So this year is  after a certain opportunity after the elimination, you can rethink and  start again.

    Zhang  Zhengyong pointed out that this year the shipowners in the mentality  will have a different idea, the owner to think, in the past to do so  much effort to kill the murder so fierce, stupid is to lose money? Of course, should be to make money as the goal; but the guests, the  freight is low, but the problem is not out of the freight, can not be  delivered on time, provoke the trouble is lower than the freight, loss  more.

    Zhang  Zhengyong said that the current shipping companies in addition to the  hands of the order, the competitors reduced, the overall class will not  increase, but is positive, the guests no longer to freight as the first,  that the shipping company will not fall, but in fact, the shipping company is not necessarily down, guests' values are  changing, the guests will enter the market before the assessment company  began to talk business, customers also change a lot.

For  Evergreen Marine together with the new COSCO, CMA, OOCL and other shipping companies group ocean alliance, is expected  to operate in April. Zhang Zhengyong stressed that any alliance is not good or bad, only  suitable for the shipping company, there are new markets can enter, the  guests are also a lot easier, the shipping company will provide more  choices in the future.

     Looking  forward to the next year, he stressed that the fourth quarter of last  year, the route market is not short off-season, is a good start. Cargo  volume in January this year, more than expected, this year is the Golden  Rooster, the shipping company is turning years.