News / Longer-term Asia-Europe contracts for ocean freight rates a better deal for carriers

26/01/2018

According to Xeneta’s crowd-sourced data, average long-term contract freight rates between Asia and North Europe are trending around 6% higher than a year ago.

Conversely the short-term market is some 7% lower.

The Oslo-headquartered freight rate benchmarking firm’s shipper- and forwarder-provided data for the tradelane recorded an ...

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