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Habben-Jansen: Cost cutting is becoming more difficult

Cutting costs has been the name of the game in the container shipping industry in recent years, Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben-Jansen tells ShippingWatch. But the low-hanging fruits are being picked little by little.
Photo: PR-foto/Hapag-Lloyd
Photo: PR-foto/Hapag-Lloyd
by CHRISTIAN CARLSEN, SIMON VALEUR

Recent years have been one long cost-cutting exercise for the container shipping industry, however, each and every operating dollar has to an increasing extent been examined and processed, and easy solutions are a bygone chapter, says Hapag-Lloyd Chief Executive Rolf Habben-Jansen in an interview with ShippingWatch.

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