While the big container carriers lost around USD 20 billion in 2009 - at the peak of the financial crisis - the major logistic companies were making money. And the carriers continue to find themselves in a more volatile state, judging by container volumes and financial results, than the big logistic companies, the so-called NVOCC's, Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier, according to a new analysis published by SeaIntel in its weekly newsletter, the Sunday Spotlight.