ocean freight rates
- Regulatory Agencies
FMC requires more pricing, capacity data from container ship companies
U.S. regulators have ordered the world’s largest ocean carriers to submit more pricing and capacity data to help protect shipping markets from anticompetitive practices.
Read More » - Container
Freight economist to government: Stay out of ocean shipping mess
Ports and inland transportation connections are choking on ocean imports. A top economist says don’t blame ocean carriers.
Read More » - American Shipper
FreightWaves Flashback: A simple error in measurement
1978: More than a decade ago, someone accepted the measurement given in a manufacturer’s advertisement at face value. The figure has been used since then…
Read More » - Maritime
The mystery of the frozen trans-Pacific spot rates
Trans-Pacific spot index rates haven’t budged from the same peak band for the past 10 weeks. How is this possible in a competitive free market?
Read More » - American Shipper
FMC keeps spotlight on ocean forwarder, consolidator concerns
COVID-19 may have disrupted supply chains but not the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission’s regulatory and policy focus on ocean container shipping, FMC chairman says.
Read More » - News
Upside down: Asia-to-Oceania rates rise but volumes fall
When demand falls, prices fall too — or they should. Yet on the southbound Asia-Oceania trade lane rates are up but volumes are down.
Read More » - American Shipper
Are box shipping rate spikes sustainable?
Asia-Europe and Asia-U.S. spot freight rates jumped 12-30% last week, but can carriers hold on to the gains?
Read More » - Company earnings
Dry bulk operator Pacific Basin’s profit sinks 73 percent
Jim Wilson reports on Hong Kong-listed dry bulk ocean shipping company Pacific Basin's earnings.
Read More » - Asia-Pacific
Commentary: Expansion of the Panama Canal benefits global trade
Ben Thrower recently visited the Panama Canal. He writes about the canal's expansion and what that means to global trade and the maritime industry.
Read More » - Asia-Pacific
Decline in box rates flattens out
Box shipping executives may allow themselves a small sigh of relief as the latest freight rates data shows that the recent decline in freight rates…
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