Could “de-broking” be one of the key catchphrases for 2016 as the pressure of broken freight markets drive intermediaries out of business?

The phrase was used in a piece in TradeWinds last week as a way of explaining a threat from government policies in China.

But it could be widened to cover a problem that is becoming clearer and clearer by the day: there are too many brokers for the amount of global business available currently.

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