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Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts: Why Transpacific Rates Are Back Near Covid Peaks

freight_commodity_indices UTC: 2026-09-17 10:00:53

As bad as covid? Quite possibly. China to US East coast is close to 11000 USD , 7% below the covid peak, China to US West coast is scratching 8000 USD? China Europe rising 250% and then down 30%. So what’s going on? Let us start with a bold statement. Nobody predicted the frei...

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