The Freightos Baltic Index, a measure of container-freight rates in 12 important maritime lanes, has increased from $2,200 to $4,000 per container (see chart). A year ago the container-shipping ...

As of March 29, it had a fleet of 713 ships with a collective TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit or standard 6.1 meter-long shipping container) capacity of 4.1 million.