freight
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Oil prices have increased materially and the bank expects higher freight rates to offset increased costs.
It also can measure the limits of releases from strategic petroleum reserves, spare production capacity, freight constraints and refinery substitution, he said.
From MarketWatch
The first is already here, brought on by the rising cost of energy and logistics, which is affecting every stage of food production, from diesel-powered irrigation to refrigerated freight.
The surge also affects larger freight carriers, many of which can by contract pass along added costs to the companies whose goods they are moving.
Digging into the data, Stanley notes that U.S. trucking freight rates, for example, rose by 0.7% in January and 1.2% in February.
From Barron's
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