Takeaway: difficult operating environment has prompted owners to return to the core business, logistics and other secondary operations. The maersk sold its British trucks Bridge Terminal Transport.

Drewry published research report, the owner seems to have realized one-stop service is not development direction, business philosophy from vertical integration to focus on core business.

In June, sold its ERS railway companies to maersk Freightliner. In may, with the star ships sold its container factory. Further, the Mediterranean shipping April sell the harbor company Terminal Investments35 % of the company, in January as sell the harbor company Terminal Link49 % stake to China merchants.

The integration of the owner to provide door to door logistics services in the short term, it would seem difficult to achieve. With the third party logistics enterprise should be of the forehead said, for a long time, they always insisted that the shipping company should not be reached to the logistics field.

Too many ships chasing too few goods, owners have to return to the main temporarily, freight forwarders to provide more space for independent to consumers as the center of the supply chain management solutions.