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Continent-UK deepsea price gap widens, says Peel Ports expert

Deepsea ocean rates to UK ports are now around $1,000 a box more than those to Continental European ports, Peel Ports commercial director Stephen Carr told an online preliminary session of the Coastlink shortsea shipping event on 22 April. He said that recent disruptions to shipping, including Covid and, more recently, the Suez Canal blockage had widened differentials between the two, to the extent that using feeder or shortsea solutions ... [+]