News / Freight rates soar as Europe-Asia capacity crunch tightens

06/03/2017

Several container lines are still said to be refusing new bookings for containers from North European hub ports to the Middle East and Asia, unless there has been a prior commitment by the carrier.

And as the backhaul capacity crunch tightens, freight rates have soared as ...

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