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Spot rates on the main east-west tradelanes suffered further serious losses this week with carriers seemingly powerless to stop the rate rot, despite a desperate strategy of blanked sailings and announcing massive general rate increases.

Indeed, today’s Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) shows a sea of ...

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