News / Container shipping rates sink yet again, despite start of 'peak season'

12/08/2016

Spot container shipping rates fell across all the main container trades this week as carriers released a set of half-year financial results that almost uniformly showed the industry operating at a loss.

Every single trade lane measured by the Shanghai Containerised Freight Index (SCFI) saw rates ...

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