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Do you want to start a Shipping Line ?

in the mediaBy Jeremy MastersApril 25, 2022

A number of retailers and forwarders are chartering ships and even going as far as to formally create a Shipping Line entity. Jeremy Masters, the MD of Shipping Masters, takes a high level look at this trend and highlights some of the advantages and difficulties for these shippers of embarking into new territory.

Carrier customer service – Why is it not better and what are the solutions ?

in the mediaBy Jeremy MastersJanuary 3, 2022

At a time when carriers can not fully control the quality of their physical product, good customer service should be a compensating priority. Jeremy Masters, Shipping Master’s MD, examines the challenges to improving customer service delivery when very heavy workloads meet centralized backrooms and user unfriendly IT and proposes some solutions.

Choosing Container carriers in a more consolidated industry

in the mediaBy Joyce ChoyMarch 14, 2019

The aftermath of the Hanjin bankcruptcy covered in Blog 1 was a spate of consolidation.
This has changed the ocean buying position for BCO’s and NVOCC’s.
Joyce Choy – Shipping Masters Development Director – provides some useful rules of the road in negotiating good rates but also maintaining options and spreading risk.

Is the size of ship a port can take the pivotal criteria in its competitiveness ?

in the mediaBy Jeremy MastersMarch 14, 2019

Shipping Master’s MD, Jeremy Masters, highlights some other factors that are critical in carrier’s port selections – most particularly size of the hinterland market and cost and service level to access that market.
He concludes that in many regional ports other factors trump ship size and make those ports very successful without taking the largest ships.

Television interview of Jeremy Masters with CNBC Squawk Box September 2016

in the mediaBy Jeremy MastersOctober 1, 2016

This interview covered the collapse of Hanjin Shipping.
The need for consolidation referred to in the interview has taken place and this has helped carriers to a degree but overcapacity ( and its ability to cascade as bigger ships are brought into East to West trades ) still dogs the industry. This will be covered in future blogs.

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