The Carriers are again looking to increase rates by introducing Peak Season or General Rate increases<\/b> in the region of $250 – $500 \/ TEU <\/b><\/p>\n
As usual carriers are not committing to final figures but plan to introduce from between the 8th<\/sup> – 11th<\/sup> January<\/b> to coincide with the Chinese New Year rush.<\/p>\n A lot of carriers are struggling already to cope with demand with a number of the big players forecasting space issues until the end of January and as such they are in the position of cherry picking the highest paying cargo.<\/p>\n This is a situation which is being felt across the industry due to reducing capacity as a result of winter sailing programs and the peak in demand before the factory shut down for Chinese New Year (31 January to 5 February)<\/p>\n 2014 already looks set to follow in the footsteps of 2013!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Carriers are again looking to increase rates by introducing Peak Season or General Rate increases in the region of $250 – $500 \/ TEU As usual carriers are not committing to final figures but plan to introduce from between the 8th – 11th January to coincide with the Chinese New Year rush. A lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[83,73,79,76,80,77],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logistics-transportation","tag-belgium-shipping","tag-china-shipping","tag-denmark-shipping","tag-europe-shipping-news","tag-ireland-shipping","tag-uk-shipping"],"yoast_head":"\n