Market news for Carriers and Forwarders

2026:

Mid-July finds the market in a deceptive calm. Spot rates have slipped a few percent off their May record – but only because

diesel fell, and that support ended on 1 July when Germany’s fuel-tax rebate expired. Contract rates didn’t give back a cent.

Demand is in its normal summer lull rather than a downturn, capacity is in its worst squeeze month of the year…