Current Players

By Christopher Muglia

E-Commerce’s The internet has taken off in the maritime industry, with no less than eighty-four plus websites. Sure, some of those eighty-four companies are winging it, not much more than a couple of guys in the basement with a bright idea, too many credit cards maxed out and the clock ticking. Many of the others, backed by big, supposedly smart, money, are burning through cash like a Hollywood hills fire storm with no web site, no product, no revenue stream and no firm launch date. At best several of the new e-commerce companies are just embarrassingly hurried stabs at the hot new thing by established old line salt and steel firms that are afraid of being left out of the most dramatic change in transportation since the steam engine and the container.

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