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The “stratospheric” freight rates and shipping lines’ huge Q2 profits have been slammed by cargo owners, and a new report claims the carrier alliances are “suppressing” cargo.

According to a market review by MDS Transmodal and the Global Shippers Forum (GSF), container traffic grew 4% in ...

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  • Gary Ferrulli

    September 02, 2021 at 3:12 pm

    Pretty well balanced realistic view of todays conditions. Many factors and entities lend to the present circumstances, and certainly unprecedented profits for an industry that has for decades lost participants due to lack of profits and negative rates of returns. How long will it last? Some of it is systemic flaws in the supply chain at many points that have been ignored for years and decades, now glaring and it will take time to fix them, with some of them maybe not repairable.

  • Zoran Kostadinoski

    September 05, 2021 at 11:56 pm

    The world economy runs on global supply chains. When the demand for shipping is higher than the supply, it is time for the supply chain participants to unite and work on solutions to minimise global trade disruptions. The ‘blame game’ will not improve the supply chain efficiency or reduce ocean freight rates.