date:Dec 08, 2020
fee from other North European ports. This was likely a strategy to reposition empty containers as quickly as possible to Asia to serve the booming China export trades.
A severe shortage of empty containers has developed in Asian origin ports over the past few months, and freight rate marketplace Freightos said carriers have been prioritizing rapid empty container returns over those containing exports from the US and Europe.
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