Higher fuel costs altering boxship deployment patterns

As fuel oil prices continue to climb, carriers are increasingly applying extra slow steaming on their long haul services. With fuel prices at levels above $400/ton since October, extra slow steaming is increasingly taking hold on the Far East-North Europe route where loops are being stretched by a week.

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