transportation costs

We know the Asiam market and its culture, here we share the topics that we think are most relevant about Asia and the economic situation, which we think can help you make decisions.
4 de April de 2022

Why are container costs not going down?

As everybody knows by now, container costs raised tenfold during Covid (yes, multiply by 10). For example, Ningbo-Barcelona 20ft container, from USD700 to USD7500 (but if you really wanted your container to ship on time, you had to pay premium, up to USD9500-10000). The causes that caused container prices to […]
15 de March de 2021

Container costs go crazy

Just a quick update on this post we wrote analyzing the situation of transportation market, and explaining why the container prices were skyrocketing and how we saw the situation. Here is the current situation (averange prices that WE pay for containers, which is not necessarily the market price): We are […]
1 de December de 2020

Why are containers so expensive lately?

Now that it seems that Covid situation is improving and we can finally relax a little bit and get back to business as usual, shipaggedon is here (cool name but sadly not mine, New York times gets the credit). To make it short, good luck these days if you want […]