The parent company of OOCL provided an early peek at what the end of 2013 might have looked like for the container industry as it released an unaudited fourth quarter operational update on Friday.
OOCL carried 1,395,794 TEU in the fourth quarter of 2013, up 10 percent from the same period last year, a strong finish to a year in which it moved 5,293,537 TEU — a much more modest 1.5-percent increase over 2012.
The picture was not as positive for revenue, however…