More muted growth, but higher carrier profits forecast in 2022.

Container demand growth is losing some momentum amid mounting headwinds, but carriers will continue to rake huge profits, according to Drewry's latest Container Forecaster report. Fast rising inflation, ongoing supply chain bottlenecks and the Omicron Covid-19 variant are conspiring to slow the pace of growth in container handling, forcing Drewry to lower its outlook for world port throughput in 2022 to 4.6 percent in the latest Container Forecaster, from 5.2 percent in the previous edition. The full-year 2021 estimate was also downgraded to 6.5 percent, from 8.2 percent. However, Drewry forecasts that...