Rates down for the ninth week in a row
The SCFI spot rate indeks from the Shanghai Shipping Exchange declined in the past week, for the ninth week in a row. The freight rates on Asia-Europe, in particular, are hit hard by an ongoing price war.
BY RITZAU FINANS
On the same day that the Maersk Group published its financial report for the first quarter of 2013, the Shanghai Shipping Exchange's SCFI spot rate index presented yet another decline. The rates went down for the ninth week in a row. The total index went down, in which the routes from Asia to Europe and the Mediterranean account for 20 and 10 percent, respectively.
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