A record forecast was made for the shipping industry in 2023. A call has been made by a reliable container financial forecasting source about the fate of 2023 for the shipping industry. This year was predicted to achieve the third-best combined annual results in the industry's history.
John McCown, who has become an important reference for the record earnings of container transportation since 2020 with the quarterly liner profit reports published by Blue Alpha Capital, is estimated to reach a total revenue of 327 billion dollars, including a combined revenue of 43.2 billion dollars this year. According to the Sean-Intelligence analysis, the results for the last 3 years for EBIT (earnings before interest and tax) are higher than the combined profit revenues of container shipping compared to the past 63 years.
Different analyzes are made online profitability for the year 2023, which started with bad situations by the analyzes. In the annual container forecast report made by Splash at the beginning of the year, it was predicted that the industry would make a profit of 15 billion dollars this year. According to investment bank Jefferies, it will be a stable year. The Shanghai Container Freight Index (SCFI) rose to 923 points from 908 points last Friday. It was the largest increase in nominal terms since June 2023. This 1.7 percent increase was the biggest increase since December 2021. The China Container Freight Index (CCFI), on the other hand, dropped 24.6 percent year-to-date.
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