It appears there’s a crisis of sorts that has freight carriers dealing with unusually high air freight rates and a lack of available capacity for the demand for services. The crisis has some freight carriers looking under every available rock for another solution that costs a little less and allows them to get customers freight to destination in a more reliable and cost efficient manner. Freight forwarders and shippers have to get real creative in finding alternatives that in many cases are apparently including both sea and air freight options in order to find the best solution. This of course isn’t a surprise, since companies will do whatever is necessary in order to get the job done as efficiently and profitably as possible.
Things appear to be pretty chaotic at times lately in the freight markets around some parts of the world and this of course makes it difficult to accurately predict the future. If the air rates continue to be high and ocean freight capacity difficult to find for shippers though, it is probably going to make the job of some freight forwarders and shippers more difficult. Also, if demand exists to move freight the price isn’t going to be important for some shipments as others and the volumes of some type of freight are probably going to increase more than others. This is going to make some types of freight more attractive for companies and they might certainly look at more long term contracts with high volume freight less worried about the cost of transport.
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