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Record high spot rates from Asia to North Europe and predictions of huge hikes for annual contract rates could lead to a rush of cancelled orders for next year.

Retailers in Europe are already nervous about new partial lockdowns stymieing their sales, and the enormous sea ...

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  • Ketan D

    December 15, 2020 at 4:50 pm

    We forwarders also know how to crib well

    Open question- are there any shipping lines that are doing better than others? For all hook and folly, I find maersk (other than the crazy freight rates) being the nicest to deal with and max transparency. And its Hapag where we are totally lost. Which is ironical as we shifted a lot of cargo to them considering Maersks new approach.

    COSCO and ONE aren’t responding for us to tell much. CMA is good but a lot of surcharges especially in China.

    We dont work with MSC so can’t comment

    Look forward to others views ?

    • Dennis

      December 16, 2020 at 5:23 pm

      Agree on Hapag: horrible customer service these days, they simply dont care…