As a result of the global trade imbalance that has become evident in the last year and the considerable increase in logistics costs, Guatemalan importers are beginning to look to Brazil as an option to replace purchases from Chinese companies.
In early March of this year, CentralAmericaData reported that as a result of the imbalance faced by world trade flows, shipping lines have changed their routes and prefer to move empty containers to Asia, a situation that at that time already generated shortages and caused increases in transport rates.
An increase of 24 cents per box for freight expenses has sent costs for shrimp producers in Honduras soaring.
An increase of 24 cents per kilometer for each box transported, approved by a legislative decree recently, will seriously impact the competitiveness of Honduran shrimp producers with respect to other regional countries, signaled
When importing goods, Latin America spends almost twice as much as the United States in transportation costs.
High transportation costs in Latin America and the Caribbean complicate commerce and drag down productivity, in addition to protecting inefficient companies and hampering the expansion of the most competitive producers, showed a new study by the Inter-American Development Bank.
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