The week in charts: Container rates plunge further | Long Beach August volumes shatter records | China’s dry bulk demands defy economic challenges
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Freight rates from Shanghai to the US east coast may have declined even more than the index indicates, the port of Long Beach handled more than 900,000 teu in August and China’s seaborne dry bulk imports expanded by 6% in the first eight months of 2024, despite domestic economic headwinds