Spot rates on transpacific surge after news of tariff time-out
Container freight spot rates shot up on the transpacific trades this week, with an immediate ...
“They are focused on infrastructure more so than logistics, and you can’t escape the ones sitting on infrastructure.”
Those were the remarks of a senior executive in our marketplace*, commenting on the latest deal disclosed by MSC’s Medlog in transport and logistics, Maritime Transport of the UK.
(*One who, incidentally, believes Mediterranean Shipping Company, aka MSC, is by far the preferred choice in container shipping due to a slew of factors.)
Those words of wisdom were quite timely earlier this month.
They had a ...
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