News / As rates decline, box carriers announce price hikes – but will they hold?

12/05/2017

Spot container freight rates on the world’s largest shipping routes continued their downward slide this week.

However, the major container lines reported first-quarter financial results showing trading conditions that are a huge improvement on the dire Q1 of 2016.

This week’s Shanghai Containerised Freight Index recorded declines on all the ...

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