Big volume shipping no longer means big value rates, reveals Xeneta
29 March 2016, Oslo: Xeneta, the leading benchmarking and market intelligence platform for containerized ocean freight, has utilised its data of global shipping rates to make a startling, and counterintuitive, claim – big volume shippers are not paying the best shipping rates.
According to the Oslo-based company, over the course of the last 18 months, high-volume shippers are actually being locked in to unfavourable long-term agreements, leaving others to take advantage of the advent of low fuel prices, megaship capacities and hyper efficient supply change management.
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