Oslo-based Xeneta, the leading ocean freight rate benchmarking and market analytics platform, has revealed a jump in long-term contracted rates for containership operators during the month of May, as 2018 rates expire and new contracts push the index upwards. According to the latest XSI® Public Indices report – based on crowd-sourced data covering over 160,000 port-to-port pairings, with 110 million data points – global rates leapt by 11.5% across the month, with US rates for imports climbing...
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