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Alphaliner downgrades growth on container market

Alphaliner has long been confident that the container market would grow by 3.5 percent in 2019, but the firm now downgrades this forecast due to the ongoing trade conflict. US President Donald Trump's latest announcement of more tariffs do not factor into the latest estimate.
Photo: PR / HMM
Photo: PR / HMM
by TOMAS KRISTIANSEN

Alphaliner now accepts the consequence of the US-China trade war and the general economic slowdown recently forecasted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), among others.

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