In January 2023 each major carrier American line, European ground air flight suspension information
Recently, the container shipping market is in a slump, with the freight index falling for the 26th consecutive week.
However, as carrier increase efforts to control capacity, the decline of freight rates continued to reduce the stability of the signal.
As the Chinese New Year holiday approaches, carriers continue to actively reduce supply announcements in order to keep capacity in line with demand amid extremely weak demand forecasts.
As inflationary pressures have mounted in the global economy this year, demand has fallen, exacerbating the gap between supply and demand.
In addition, the arrival of the Lunar New Year holiday is likely to cause further decline in shipments, which has triggered a wave of suspension of shipping lines in an attempt to reverse the oversupply situation and stop the decline in freight rates.
In addition, there is news that some American line shippers have reported to the United States Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) that each large container (40 feet container) in the West and east of the United States will be increased by $1,000, and inland will be increased by $2,000.
But large freight forwarder companies think it is very difficult to raise prices, some freight forwarder companies estimate that it can rise 100, 200 is good; For the European route, the forecast may be a real increase of $50.