freight rates

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Covid lockdowns in China, war in Ukraine and the threat of hyper-inflation are a toxic mix of unpredictability for

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Container spot rates continued their decline this week across most Chinese export routes, prompting ocean

By Laura Curtis (Bloomberg) — U.S. importers, straining under a tapped-out supply chain, are increasingly offering top dollar for long-term shipping

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Maersk said this week it anticipated container spot rates would fall back in the second half of the year, justifying

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Two top European shippers warned on Wednesday freight costs were likely to remain high well into

German ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd “extraordinarily strong” operating results in 2021 thanks to higher freight rates, although volumes remained

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The bull run for ocean carriers appears unstoppable, with profitability in the first quarter of the year looking to be

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Container spot rates from Asia to the US west coast spiked this week, ahead of the Chinese New Year holiday on 1

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Volume shippers offered new long-term fixed-rate contracts by container lines are, nevertheless, still keen to keep a

STOCKHOLM, Dec 30 (Reuters) – The world’s biggest furniture brand IKEA is raising prices by an average of 9% as it faces increasing costs in

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Starting the year in lockdown and ending the year in lockdown, it all seems like a scene from the Bill Murray classic

Can container freight futures offer an antidote for supply chain blues? The Baltic Exchange, which pioneered indexation and transacting of drybulk freight

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — Ocean freight rates on goods shipped to both major U.S. coasts from Asia fell to the lowest levels since July,

By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — There’s little sign of near-term improvement in the global supply-chain crisis, according to Israeli container

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) – A surge in container shipping rates poses a threat to the global economic recovery, with small

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — Ocean freight rates, which have pummeled retailers and manufacturers throughout 2021, may take more than two years to

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Ocean carriers are offering significant discounts on Asia exports to the US and Europe as the traditional slack season

Containership charter rates fell for the first time in at least 16 months in what could be the first sign of container freight rates easing. This is according

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Container spot rates from Asia to the US have re-gained traction after China’s Golden Week holiday, while rates to

The chaos in container shipping has forced some brands like Home Depot, Ikea and Costco to get creative with their supply chains. We can now add The Coca-Cola