As the sea freight to European jumping in July, it was expected this situation will go on in August, and actually it did, the freight increased to about 1100 U.S. dollars / container in August.News from the industry said that it will increase more than 200 U.S. dollars per container, meanwhile special overweight chare will be claimed by shipping company, the rate for gum rosin is 150 USD per Mt. Compared with jumping sea freight to European, the freight to South-Eastern Asia increased slightly, rose up about 10-20 USD per container in August against 350 USD/container in July.
Before the financial crisis over last year, the European sea freight was more than 2000 U.S. dollars / containers, while the South-Eastern Asia‘s is more than 300 U.S. dollars / container. Recently, it has not yet returned to the pre-crisis levels, it possibly rose up continually, but in the South-Eastern Asia, it will change little