News / Shipowners gain upper hand as charter market bites back at carriers

12/04/2018

Container lines are facing a new “perfect storm” of falling freight rates, higher fuel costs and a charter market turned in favour of shipowners.

For some time, ocean carriers have been able to adjust their capacity to the peaks and troughs of demand by hiring and ...

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