Drewry Shipping Consultants, in its latest Container Forecast, concluded that 2009 will be the toughest test yet for the Container industry and further casualties are a real possibility. During the last quarter of 2008, carriers have been doing their best to reduce capacity through suspension of a number of high profile east/west services. However, Drewry argues that the gap between supply and demand is still too big. For the short to medium term, carriers can at best only stabilize freight rates that, on the Asia to Europe trade, have recently fallen to uncommercial levels. Drewry’s revised estimate for 2008 global container traffic growth is 152.8 million teu…