Media: Big carriers may be gone in ten years

Carriers unable to successfully adapt to changes that the digital trend imposes on them could vanish within ten years, notes DFDS CEO Niels Smedegaard according to Danish newspaper Berlingske.
Photo: Carsten Bundgaard
Photo: Carsten Bundgaard
BY OLE ANDERSEN

"There is a risk that some of the major carriers will no longer be here in ten years. We are waking up, but if we lean back and say that it won't hit us because we have had ships for 100 years, then we will be in serious danger," says Niels Smedegaard, CEO of DFDS, in comments to newspaper Berlingske referring to the technological development which could change the global shipping industry.

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