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Container Freight - Is There a Lag Between the Spot Rate and Shipping Rate?
About 60 or 70% of containerized freight moves on annual contracts and 30 or 40 on the spot market. Spot rates went up a lot during the pandemic, and now they're starting to come back down. So it seems like there's perhaps a lag in how long it takes the decrease in spot rates to feed through to actual shipping rates. The pain for the carriers probably comes after this contract season.