freight rates

Weighing on the front end of the market were fears of large deliveries as high freight rates make delivery of soybeans an attractive option.

Freight rates on the Europe-Asia run are now below $700 per TEU, less than half the peak a year ago.

And, with exuberant ocean freight rates, China was switching delivery of soybeans from South America to the Pacific Northwest.

As with so much to do with commodities, the extraordinary rise in freight rates is partly because of China's appetite for raw materials.

Consequently, the key factor in operating Capsize vessels is to forecast the fluctuations in freight rates and charter hires.

Even the coastal trades were curtailed by a lack of vessels, by blockades, and by wartime freight rates.

"The sector is in a cyclical uptrend and some freight rates have recovered to profitable levels, " said Cheng.

The movement of grain and soybeans pulled back recently leading to a weakening in barge freight rates.

There were some yellow flags warning of slowing global demand -- freight rates sputtered, as did power generation and petroleum demand.

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Regulation of freight rates by the Interstate Commerce Commission was removed for most cargoes, provided they could go by road.

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Other dynamics, including soaring freight rates and the disparity between spot and contract prices, support a hefty hike.

"Those shippers paying the highest freight rates actually are being overcharged by a considerably greater amount, " he added.

In the global bulk shipping market, there are obvious differences in freight rates and charter hires among different vessel types.

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The Danish shipping line, the world's biggest, recorded a first-half loss as freight rates fell sharply.

Ocean freight rates started 2009 with a positive tone.

China railway raised freight rates to offset domestic oil price rise.

Ralph says he is expecting "modest" rate increases this year following the "precipitous" drop in freight rates the past year.

Attempts at re-regulation have been made in Congress in recent years, in response to rising freight rates.

Freight rates have eased but they are still running at a premium of around $15 to those offered for Yuzhnyy.

Freight rates rose by nearly one-third in the four years to the peak of the cycle in the third quarter of 2005 (see chart).

When freight rates are low, as they are today, the cost saving is US$12 a tonne.

Price series that can be obtained from private sources such as railroad freight rates and Montgomery Ward's catalogues.

But market freight rates had tumbled to under $20 a ton.

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That is good news for freight rates, if any more were needed.

Meanwhile, though barge freight rates ended about 8% lower during 2007, they followed a record year and ended the second highest on record.

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