News / Soaring costs put the squeeze on feeder operators, while profit-fat liners look on

Feeders ships are expected to get boxes into smaller UK ports © Joseph Golby

28/06/2021

The future of some feeder services in North Europe is under threat from the pincer movement of sky-high charter hire rates and escalating port delays.

Feeder operators are paying at least double the daily hire rate of a year ago for the same ships and, at ...

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