A 40′ container filled with household goods, shipped from Shanghai to Houston, Texas costs $6169.93. Reverse the trip and ship the same container from Houston to Shanghai and the cost is $3631.07. That’s because 60% of containers on ships coming from the US to China are empty, which means Maersk and other shippers are desperate to sell container space.
‘The ley lines of globalisation’ (via Marginal Revolution)
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