A surge in container shipping rates poses a threat to the global economic recovery, with small countries dependent on deliveries by sea expected to be hardest hit by a spike in import prices, U.N. agency UNCTAD said on Thursday. A surge in demand for consumer goods during the pandemic has created major supply bottlenecks around …
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