Will the Mega ship model “give way”?

Olaf Merk from the OECD’s International Transport Forum (ITF) said the mega ship model is an unsustainable “taxpayer financed bubble” that imposes unsustainable costs on the rest of the container supply chain.

The ITF made its views on mega ships known in the report “The Impact of Mega-Ships” released last year. Speaking at the ICHCA International Conference in Barcelona last week, Olaf Merk, Administrator Ports and Shipping, International Transport Forum, OECD took another swing at the sustainability of the mega ship strategy the world’s leading container lines are pursuing.