3 Japanese Shipping Companies to Merge Container Businesses
A Mitsui O.S.K. container ship in Hamburg, Germany, in 2014. The global shipping industry has been grappling with excess capacity and weakened trade. CreditDaniel Reinhardt/Deutsche Presse-Agentur, via Associated Press TOKYO — In a fresh sign of the economic fallout from weaker global trade, Japan’s three largest shipping companies agreed on…