News / Breakbulk revival as box shipping prices itself out of the market

Container shipping’s capacity crunch has priced some agricultural and chemical commodities out of the market – in favour of breakbulk.

And the de-containerisation trend could spread to other cargo categories, according to Estonia-based freight forwarder CF&S.

The company recently loaded 700 tons of fertilisers, feed, and chemicals from Xingang to Hamburg in big bags on a multipurpose vessel.

“Due to the huge rise in prices for container sea freight from China to Europe, and the lack of container equipment, we recently tried an ...