Ocean freights expected to take longer in the future

Just one year ago, the rates for a container in sea transport reached $15,000. As challenging as this immense increase was, the rapid fall back to the original $1,500, which is reached after a year, was also sobering. Since the demand for shipping volume decreased again in the summer of 2022, freight rates also fell from August. Now the dealers have trouble selling the more expensive stock goods with a general drop in demand and increasing inflation despite cheaper competition. The shipping companies currently have so few ships in use that they prefer to circumnavigate the ...