REEFER RATES

Good signs for trucking from produce?

Chart of the Week: USDA Produce Truckload Rate – San Francisco to Chicago, Reefer OUtbound Tender Rejection Index – California SONAR: AGRATE.SFOCHI, ROTRI.CA

The year’s headlines to date have centered around panic and disorder. Anyone perusing social media can see a slough of memes pointing out what a disaster of a year 2020 has been thus far. This article will point to one area that is actually having a better year – the produce trucking sector.

“Produce season” is a reference to the moving...

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Historic capacity crunch looms as more Europe-Asia sailings are blanked

Freight forwarders sending goods out of Europe to Asia face one of the tightest capacity crunches in living memory over the next few weeks.
CMA CGM is set to blank 23 North Europe-Asia sailings from now until 2 June, after last week announcing three further deepsea sailings in the middle of this month had been cancelled, “due to recent demand slowdown in the context of the coronavirus situation”.
This month alone, 15 …

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A chill settles over perishables shippers as reefer shortage persists

Concerns over a shortage of reefer containers are still riding high, amid fresh warnings that supply is due fall well short of demand towards the end of the year, and into 2020.
The warning came from global head of seafreight reefer logistics at Kuehne + Nagel Frank Ganse, while Thomas Eskesen, founder of Eskesen Advisory, also envisages no improvement next year.
He pointed to the fact that orders for new reefer containers currently …

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Maersk increases reefer rates from Mauritania

Maersk is announcing an increase in Reefer rates. Below are the Reefer rates for a sample list of corridors, commodities and container types where the rate increase is effective.

Rate levels

Origins Destinations Commodity 20DC 40DC 40High

Nouadhibou

Nouadhibou

Rotterdam

Frozen Fish

3345 USD

3795 USD

3795 USD

Rotterdam

Frozen Fish

3345 USD

3795 USD

3795 USD

Notes:
  • Effective start date: 01-07-19
  • Effective end date: Until further notice

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