While freight rates, earnings and demand for shipments of goods across the seas in the past year have been roaring ahead, container carriers' ability to deliver goods to customers on time has conversely plummeted.
August represented a historic low for container carriers' reliability, according to new figures from Sea-Intelligence.
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