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2. Freight rate - Wikipedia

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   Freight rate. A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight [1]) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport ( truck, ship, train, aircraft ), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.

3. Shipping rates plunge as experts say 'unprecedented ... - AOL

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   Shipping rates have fallen sharply this year as the pandemic-induced scramble for shipping and the resulting spike in costs has peaked, according to experts. ... is a decrease in demand for ocean ...

4. Container ship - Wikipedia

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   This railroad can typically deliver containers in 1/3 to 1/2 of the time of a sea voyage, and in late 2009 announced a 20% reduction in its container shipping rates. [109] With its 2009 rate schedule, the TSR will transport a forty-foot container to Poland from Yokohama for $2,820, or from Pusan for $2,154. [109]

5. Chartering (shipping) - Wikipedia

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   Chartering is an activity within the shipping industry whereby a shipowner hires out the use of their vessel to a charterer. The contract between the parties is called a charterparty (from the French "charte partie", or "parted document"). The three main types of charter are: demise charter, voyage charter, and time charter .

6. List of largest container shipping companies - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [ 2 ]

7. How the Red Sea crisis could clobber the global economy - AOL

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   The Suez Canal accounts for 10-15% of world trade, which includes oil exports, and for 30% of global container shipping volumes. The Houthi militants, based in Yemen, say they are taking revenge ...