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Walmart charters container vessels as shipping costs, logistics batter seafood firms

While retailing giants have the financial resources and cargo volumes to justify chartering their own ships, smaller retailers continue to struggle under the current problems plaguing the container shipping sector.

For firms with very deep pockets chartering container ships has become a viable option.
For firms with very deep pockets chartering container ships has become a viable option.Foto: Shutterstock
Published 23 August 2021, 07:45Updated 23 August 2021, 13:46
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