Past The single encompassing change for me is the innovation and globalisation that container shipping has brought through constantly lowering the costs of linking markets. This has come about through economies of scale [vessel size] and provision of vast carrier networks linking even the smallest markets. This has simply brought the cost of doing business in any market to an absolute minimum. Future I want to see the barriers of entry to trade and red tape intra Africa removed as much as possible. It is a crying shame that when looking at Africa container throughput [import/export] only 2-3% of container volume is coming from intra-Africa trade, with the balance from international markets. African markets are seeing increasingly larger and larger ship systems which can easily facilitate intra-regional growth.
