Containership charter rates, which have defied the freight slump for some time, could be peaking, as some small ships chartered by opportunistic operators for transpacific services, are being diverted to the Persian Gulf as freight rates have tanked, according to Linerlytica. Transpacific freight rates, particularly to the US West Coast, have lost almost all the […] The post Transpacific crash may normalise charter market appeared first on Container News .