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"Continued COVID shutdowns in Asia, disrupted sailing schedules, ocean port congestion and equipment issues, limited passenger air capacity, the cost of fuel, and a potential longshoreman work stoppage in California will keep international supply chains in limbo and rates high well into 2023," predicts Evan Armstrong, president of Armstrong & Associates, Inc. Some observers expect further lock-downs in China, say nothing of the disruptions and concerns caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. "In January 2021, people said surely things cannot get worse in the new year," says Lars Jensen, CEO and partner of Vespucci Maritime. "Then 2021 happened, and now we have a deja vu in 2022 with an even worse scenario because there's little buffer capacity in the system. It will take very little for us to face something even worse." |