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Container spot rates continued to slide this week as capacity issues threatened the stability of the Asia-Europe trade.

And on the transpacific, a trade war appears to be on the verge of breaking out between China and the US.

This week’s Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) saw ...

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