News / East-west container freight rate decline slows, but price hikes are on the way

20/10/2017

Container freight rates on the main east-west trades almost halted their decline over recent weeks, but not quite.

According to this morning’s Shanghai Containerised Freight Index, rates to North Europe from Shanghai slipped just $5 per teu to finish the week at $681 per teu, and to Mediterranean ...

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