Rates update, week 51: GRIs boost prices, with more to come in January
Container spot rates on the transpacific trades shot up this week, on the back of ...
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At Loadstar Towers, in classic bearish fashion we contemplated last night the succulent prospect of negative freight rates in ocean – or, at least, the possibility they would plummet to zero on specific trade lanes.
(Call the latter a best case thought-provoking exercise.)
It was in the late 90s, my Loadstar colleague Nick Savvides recalled, when a logistics manager from Dutch firm Koninklijke Philips willingly disclosed to him that to ship goods from Europe to Asia, the ocean freight market was so ...
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