Shipping Container Shortage 2024 Today. Increasing freight costs, shortage of containers and dependence on major shipping hubs and foreign carriers pose serious challenges to the country's exports, think tank gtri said on sunday. 1 “a freightful time for container ships,” financial times, january 4, 2024.

In the report, vespucci maritime ceo lars. The closure of the suez route has changed the fundamental outlook for container shipping in 2024, with a potential capacity crunch in asia looming in the short term, according to the january report of the baltic exchange.