EC contracts dropped 15-17% during the morning session on the first trading day
after the Golden Week holidays, influenced by the SCFIS report from the previous
night and movements in the Chinese equities market.
Carriers' on-line FAK freight rates quotations released today, compared to the
same from last working day (30 Sep) before Golden Week, mostly remain lower.
Hapag Lloyd and ONE raised their quotations since 30 Sep, which however have
not been followed by Maersk and MSC. Lunar New Year