Never more in ocean freight has survival come to creativity, ingenuity and avoiding the so called “electrified third rail”. Ocean freight participants can only rely “this” much (narrow bandwidth) on relationships to keep the velocity of their supply chain intact. Today, survival in the ocean freight game has the silhouette of the frothy gyrations of today’s stock market with untold surcharges and premiums on top of crooked rate numbers. It’s no longer a sales game, but a numbers game – and the numbers are starting to indicate panic.

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