News / Ocean spots decline has knock-on effect on contract talks

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Container spot freight rates accelerated their declines on the main east-west trades this week, as demand failed to match capacity and freight buyers found space plentiful.

The spot rate on the Shanghai-Rotterdam component of Drewry’s World Container Index (WCI) lost 9% week on week, to end ...

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