Over the past year, global shipping rates have hit multi-year highs, driven by a commodity boom, port bottlenecks, shortage of containers and an industry capacity crunch.
The blockage of the Suez Canal in March following the grounding of giant container ship Ever Given simply brought the whole issue into sharper focus.
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