Market: Logistics

Flatbed spot rates are still down 26% from their Q2 2022 peak. Have we found a bottom? Could rates go lower?

After seven years of unprecedented protection, it’s past time to assess the results.

Export resilience as ferrous recycled metal prices stay firm despite domestic dips.

From scrap to sea: Unraveling the tangled web of global scrap metal shipping.

Scrap metal markets face dynamic shifts: Aluminum steady, copper surging, steel struggling.

The recycled metals market is navigating through a phase of oversupply as per survey responses, with stable but cautious demand.

After nine quarters of tough sledding the question remains, will supply continue to hang on and slowly exit the marketplace, thus keeping rates rather tame, or will enough carriers get fed up and throw in the towel to have a marked impact on the rate environment?

Rio Tinto alumina shipments disrupted; Protestors hold up aluminum waste relocation in Thailand.

We'll see whether the annual CVSA Roadcheck or seasonal demand patterns will be enough to give flatbed rates any real lift.

The wild cards in some price negotiations are Bangladesh and India.