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Ocean shipping stocks are not “buy-and-hold” investments. Shipping is a highly cyclical industry;...

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Container shipping spot rates in the Asia-U.S. trade have halted their ascent after rising double...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/rebound-in-trans-pacific-container-shipping-rates-has-stalled

“Imports still plunging, down 14% year on year” sounds alarming for the U.S. economy. But July’s percentage drop is an artifact of the COVID-driven import boom, a one-off event that ended in late 2022 that is no longer news.

“Imports unchanged versus pre-pandemic levels” is a less dramatic headline with no double digits, ominous undertones or “plunging” involved. Yet that is the real news: The volume of containerized imports to the U.S. is normal and healthy. There is no sign yet in the import...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-import-volumes-continue-to-mirror-pre-covid-normal

Shipping lines have been in the red in the trans-Pacific trades for months. They may have just inched back into the black again, courtesy of the rise in spot rates over the past five weeks.

Annual trans-Pacific contract rates reset to sharply lower levels in May. Even so, multiple ocean carrier execs insisted on conference calls that they did not sign annual contracts at levels that locked in a year’s worth of losses.

The problem for carriers in recent months: A portion of their trans-Pacific...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trans-pacific-spot-shipping-rates-rise-above-contract-rates