[Skybird]

Possible they have become a bit too big. Container shipping is a reason why things have become so cheap and affordable (comparable to assembly lines and mass production) , so a development at that direction - growing business with container an dbigger ships) was logical. But one may have exaggerated it. A bit like with the A380 versus Dreamliner bet by Airbus and Boeing. We know by now that the A380 was one step too far, too big. Smaller planes are in demand, the A380 is already doomed to become a petrified dinosaur.

Maybe container ships will shrink a bit in size, and container shipping certainly will take a dive, now that globalization is kind of reversed to lower dependency from China. Disappearing it will not. Smaller ships, maybe even more of them than there are now. More flexibility for freight scheduling.

But all that is in the end just my unqualified guessing. I know not much, better: nothing about this business. Only that the costs per container have exploded by factors of up to 20 - and that was Fanatec saying so in autumn last year.