Who will be right? Maersk CEO Søren Skou or Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen?

Right now the two chief executives represent different ends of the spectrum in terms of expectations for the container market in 2019. A year that will first and foremost show whether the recovery that emerged last year does in fact constitute an actual return to a better market, or merely the remainder of the recovery that began to materialize in late 2017.