shipping costs5 Apr 2021 18:00
As an aside from the "video", I was just doing a little light reading and found this comment which I thought was interesting...........
"If I could just comment on the freight costs. I have spent my career in logistics and am a member of the professional bodies, although bulk deep sea is not my thing, however it is an error to assume that shipping costs are the same on a tonne/mile basis globally. There is currently a huge discrepancy in bulk traffic flows across the Atlantic with grain from North America and soya from Brazil not being balanced with return traffic, everyday there are bulk carriers travelling west empty. So traffic from Morocco to Brazil will be very attractive to a shipping line at what might appear to be a very marginal rate because they will have charged a round trip rate from Brazil to Liverpool or wherever on the assumption that the vessel will return empty after discharge.
As an aside all these tolled "special" routes for freight are expensive, if you think the Panama toll is expensive check out the Suez toll. Or worse still on a tonne/mile basis, send a truck through the Mont Blanc tunnel, eye-watering."