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Future Transport and Logistics brief week 30 2026
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- Managed Rate Correction & The "Sogese Effect": Ocean freight spot rates are executing a controlled descent managed by carrier alliances through aggressive capacity discipline, including at least 30 blank sailings on Transpacific routes to prevent a market collapse. This is complicated by the "Sogese Effect," where the cautious resumption of Suez Canal transits is causing vessel bunching and terminal paralysis at Northern European hubs as ships from two different routes arrive simultaneously.
- EU Customs & Regulatory Shock: The European Union has fundamentally altered cross-border e-commerce by abolishing the €150 de minimis exemption, replacing it with a flat €3 duty per item. This shift makes low-average-order-value direct-injection logistics ...
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