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Simon Heaney
Senior Manager, Container Research
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Manager - Ports and Container Research
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Senior Manager, Container Research
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Manager - Ports and Container Research
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This package of the 2017 annual review and quarterly equipment insights provides analysis and projections of future container fleet development as well as container manufacturing and supply forecasts, including detailed analysis of the lease company rank and file, lease structures rates and financials, trends and forecasts for the lease and owned fleets and much more.
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