News / Looks like 'an early peak season', but is it the peak of spot rate pricing?

Summer officially began in the northern hemisphere yesterday, but with large parts of Europe still feeling the grip of a wintery spring, you could be forgiven for mistaking which season we are actually in.

It seems an apt metaphor for the current container spot freight market: is it in the throes of an early peak season, propelled by western retailers “pre-stocking” to avoid congestion and supply chain disruption during the normally busy months of July to September; or is it a ...