Splash Wrap: The price of passage
Splash 247 · Aug 28, 2026
Shipping spent this week paying ever more extravagant sums for something that used to be taken largely for granted: passage. War, drought, congestion and regulation have turned the journey from A to B into an increasingly complicated calculation of risk, availability and price. This week showed just how expensive keeping those routes open is becoming. …
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