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

20/01/2021

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 ...

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Vidma
January 21, 2021 at 5:11 pm
Andrej is very good professional

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