Leaner inventories weaken ocean demand, a harbinger for higher tender rejections, increased truck rates

Originally published at: Leaner inventories weaken ocean demand, a harbinger for higher tender rejections, increased truck rates - FreightWaves

Falling prices for containers moving from Asia to the United States could be one indicator that truck rates and tender rejections will soon continue to move up.

Anyone have an idea why Americans aren’t buying arbitrarily more expensive stuff? That couldn’t have anything to do with ship fees and tariffs and other unnecessary self-owns?