Occasionally there exists a situation when there is huge demand for shipments in one direction (e.g. Hong Kong to Singapore) while there is not much traffic the other way round.
Shipping companies then need to get those containers back to origin, so the prices go down (better ship full container where at least handling is paid rather than empty container where carrier has to cover all the costs).
Not sure how often this happens currently, I got the information from friendly trade lane manager few years back.
Occasionally there exists a situation when there is huge demand for shipments in one direction (e.g. Hong Kong to Singapore) while there is not much traffic the other way round.
Shipping companies then need to get those containers back to origin, so the prices go down (better ship full container where at least handling is paid rather than empty container where carrier has to cover all the costs).
Not sure how often this happens currently, I got the information from friendly trade lane manager few years back.