Container Shortage Adds Impetus To Commodity Prices

Shipping container shortage has made it expensive to move sugar, coffee and copper around the world by sea, says an article published in The Wall Street Journal.

High freight rates

Ocean freight rates began to soar last summer, and haven’t let up. 

What is the reason?

That is partly because consumers, unable to spend money in restaurants, have splashed out on goods that move by sea. Retailers and manufacturers, meanwhile, have rushed to rebuild inventories.

Container shortage 

The shortage of 40-foot...

https://mfame.guru/container-shortage-adds-impetus-to-commodity-prices/

Maersk Institute Seeks Economist To Abet Shipping Decarbonization

The Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping has posted a job advertisement for a chief economist in Copenhagen, reports Ship & Bunker.

Shipping decarbonization

The Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Center is a non-profit independent research centre, working across the whole of shipping with industry, academia and the authorities, it said upon its launch last year.

The mission of the Center is to be a driving force in shipping’s decarbonization journey,” the organisation said in its job...

https://mfame.guru/maersk-institute-seeks-economist-to-abet-shipping-decarbonization/

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