Container spot rates have peaked as all major trades see prices fall
There was more evidence in this week’s container port freight markets that peak prices on ...
The table is all set for earnings season*, with the two most-followed forwarders boasting major sea (and air) exposure reporting tomorrow after several land-based T&L players from the US disappointed on fundamentals last week.
(*Here’s a preview from 5 July: “US & Europe ’Top 8’ – for whom the earnings bell tolls the hardest”.)
But it is the asset-heavy ocean carriers that spur the imagination, with several pundits suggesting their interims won’t be as bad as feared by the bears. There’s truth in that, ...
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