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The spread between short-term and long-term ocean freight rates has widened sharply. Carriers and customers are refusing to concede, so rates remain volatile and unsettled.
A standoff between short- and long-dated freight pricing makes booking costs harder to hedge for feed importers, though the direction of the price move is unclear.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.