USEC dispute end comes too late to stop transpacific spot rate climb
Container spot freight rates on the main east-west trades continued on divergent paths this week, ...
It’s reprehensible but consistent with free market theory – Milton Friedman’s pencil sourcing, anybody? – that most supply chain actors, spearheaded by the major container shipping lines, seem unable to acknowledge the damage they do to the consumer.
Their own stratospheric profits taken from our pockets rather than straight from their own clients’, while preferences shift.
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With the side effect to propel systemic demand/supply imbalances (click below to expand the screen grab, sourced from Zero Hedge)…
… higher (albeit ...
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