Box lines start Asia-Mexico services as rates hit 20-month high

Mainline operators have been starting services connecting China with Mexico as freight rates have reached a near two-year high.

Freight rates for containers from Chinese ports to Mexico’s main container port, Manzanillo, are now around US$2,000 per TEU. This has caused CMA CGM, COSCO and MSC to start China-Mexico connections.

On 6 May, COSCO and its subsidiary OOCL started the Transpacific Latin Pacific 5 (TLP5) service, offering transit times of 15 to 20 days between China, South Korea and...

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