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The headline rate is not the price. Fuel surcharges, peak surcharges, remote area fees, residential delivery adders, dimensional weight rules and the annual general rate increase all sit on top, and carriers adjust them on their own schedule. A rate that looked competitive in January can be materially worse by June without the base ever moving. This tag tracks surcharge announcements from the express carriers and the postal channels, general rate increases, and the dimensional weight changes that quietly reprice every bulky product in your catalogue. Sellers who audit their invoices find errors more often than they expect. Sellers who never audit them fund the difference. If you have not repriced your shipping in a year, you are almost certainly paying a number nobody negotiated.
PetroChina has restored Middle East production to nearly 90% of pre-conflict levels, helping offset a 14.2% drop in overseas crude output during H1 2026.
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Ships wait 10 days to berth at Shanghai and Ningbo after Typhoon Saudel added to weeks of congestion, holding up 3.92 million TEU globally. Carriers are shifting 19% of Asia-Europe capacity back through Suez, and if the full fleet follows, global container demand could contract 8.7% in the first half of 2027 even as underlying cargo volumes grow.
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