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That’s what one of our Top 100 eroded by the online disruptors, just in The global economy is in transition. entries wrote in an email to his staff case they had missed that development. The engines driving growth are last month, while warning of seismic Walmart, it seems, is no longer the sputtering and there is precious little change afoot and the desperate need price leader in retail. Amazon is. As sign of any alternatives on the horizon. for strategic innovation. one retail commentator recently put it, While it would be a leap too far to Was it a dry bulk owner? A box “for the past several years, Walmart has suggest that globalisation is going into executive, perhaps? A shipbuilder, faced a painful choice between top-line reverse, it does appear to be stalling. banker or broker? growth and bottom-line profitability”. Those reliable rules on which we Given the young fleet, shipyard Sound familiar? all previously depended are looking capacity still in apparent surplus, While such dilemmas are unlikely more and more like long forgotten seaborne trade growth down near 2%, a to elicit too much sympathy from the guidelines. Traditionally, containerised wobbly world economy with China, the container operators on our annual trade used to grow at around two and growth driver, still trying desperately ranking of influence, given that the a half times global GDP growth. Not so to work out what the new normal looks shippers still very much have the whip now, but why? like... well, frankly, it could have been hand in the box market, it is at least Quantitative easing, a complacent any of them. comforting to know that shipping is not and reliable villain, is partly to blame There’s every likelihood that similar alone in its reflexive period of strategic for distortions in the freight market memos and missives have been re-evaluation and adjustment. and a weak commodity market, emanating from the laptops of our These annual lists of influence and compounded by China’s overextension industry elite all year. power tend to focus on either the of manufacturing and its efforts to However, as it happens, it was not a skillful, strategic success stories of our ‘rebalance’ the economy toward shipping executive at all; rather it was individuals, or the self-inflicted sorrows internal consumption, a policy that the one person on our list who probably of the sectors. But the industry’s has slowed GDP growth (albeit still at a wouldn’t know one end of a post- agency in these highs and lows is often supercharged 6.9%). panamax from the other. The message overstated. The rise of trade barriers are also came from bargain basement behemoth This year’s annual Top 100 reflects worth bringing in for questioning, Walmart’s chief executive Doug that assessment and the fact that given that since 2008, OECD nations Lloyd’s List Top 100 2015 | 05 have implemented more than 3,500 Success, and influence, in shipping realise that owners are hedging their new tariffs that combine to slow down is about responding to the rapidly bets, strategically speaking, wherever the velocity of goods through the global reshaping vagaries of global trade and possible right now. value chain. the big ticket macro events that we There’s a lot to be said for And if all this sounds a little have no hope of influencing, or at least this cautious approach and the nebulous, it is. But with growing doing it quicker and better than your sustainability of our Top 100 list lies debt burdens, ageing consumers, low competitors. testament to the success that can be investments and the risk of deflation in Disruption and uncertainty is coming derived from well managed risk. But several of the major economies, there is from all angles, but that’s just the amid all this change, shipping is yet to little wonder that macro economists are new normal and many of the more respond proactively with any big idea saying the outlook for seaborne trade experienced Top 100 veterans would of its own. looks, well, bleak. argue it’s not that new. Much ink has been spilled in the As one of the more colourful Many of this year’s most influential global examination of companies like research heads recently pointed out in have eschewed any notion of change Uber and how they have disrupted conversation on the topic of whether and kept their position through good first the taxi industry and now such things were cyclical or secular: old-fashioned notions like timing and potentially the car manufacturers, “The processes that drove rapid trade discipline. Control your costs and you simply by efficiently matching people’s growth in the past decade are on drips make sure you employ the ship in a transportation needs with data via at the moment and, for as long as they way where its employment reflects smartphones. remain in intensive care, it might be the market, said one of our Top 100. For shipping, alliances, pools and cyclical rather than secular, but it’s Look beyond the depressed rates and other capacity-sharing agreements going to take a long time to recover.” distress if you want to play a long-term represent a start, but we can’t help If there is a structural element to the opportunity, was the lesson gleaned thinking here at Lloyd’s List that equation, it is because the maturing from another. shipping has yet to touch the sides global value chain has shifted away For others, flexibility is key. Many of of what the big data revolution could from trade-intensive goods towards the discussions we have had with our potentially mean for seaborne trade. services, hence the decoupling of world Top 100 this year seem to return to the Big ideas by their nature don’t trade growth and global GDP growth. notion that there is no one strategy receive validation until all the chips Even such 21st century trade pacts like out there right now that is worth are on the table. Tying flexibility to the TransPacific Partnership focus committing to, given the uncertainty risk — spending the money to do it, if most on the lifting of cross barriers that pervades all markets. you have it and are willing to test your for services, an endorsement and a You only have to look at the trend vision managing disruption — is a leg-up for the expansion of services as towards optimising newbuildings strategy that will leave some smarting proportion of national GDP in many of to be LNG-fuel ready, should the and heading for the door, but there the world’s key economies.