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Today's sample content: Trade & Supply Chains
Trade & Supply Chains
- Asia-US East Coast container spot rates reached $11,259 per FEU on 17 September, within 11% of the January 2022 pandemic peak, after quadrupling since the Hormuz crisis. Shanghai vessel delays of 7-10 days show the surge is congestion-driven rather than demand-driven, and analysts expect a possible new record before Golden Week softening.
- Shipping industry daily earnings hit a new nominal peak. Owners are holding cash and restraining fleet expansion, making this supercycle structurally unlike 2004-08.
- Almonty and Sandvik's WBH secured an EU-origin tungsten supply deal ahead of US defence procurement rules banning Chinese and Russian feedstock from January 2027.
- Asia-US rates near pandemic records as congestion, not demand, drives the surge — Far East-US East Coast rates hit $11,259 per FEU, within 11% of the 2022 record, driven by port congestion and blank sailings rather than cargo growth. · also in Business, Economics & Markets
- Shipping supercycle is structurally different from 2004-08, limiting overcapacity risk — Industry earnings hit a new nominal peak. Owners are not borrowing to expand fleets, and propulsion uncertainty restrains ordering despite large cash accumulation. · also in China, Economics & Markets
- EU-origin tungsten secured ahead of US defence procurement ban on Chinese and Russian supply — Almonty and Sandvik's WBH signed a multi-year offtake for Spanish tungsten, positioning WBH as the only non-Asian, non-Russian integrated smelter before January 2027 US rules. · also in Mining
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