FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin According to Peter Sand, Chief Analyst at Xeneta, freight rates have surged sharply amid tensions in the Middle East. As explained, the wave of freight rate increases is gathering momentum across global ocean container shipping trades, fueled by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and knock-on disruption in South East Asia ports, plus growing fears of an energy crisis in the second half of 2026. RelatedNews New concept aims to advance nuclear-powered container shipping HHI and BV to develop real-time system to curb containership rolling var jnews_module_21374888_0_6a27d84ef2d2a = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21374888","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"2969,507,1573,1674","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_tablet":"","ads_image_phone":"","ads_image_link":"","ads_image_alt":"","ads_image_new_tab":"","google_publisher_id":"","google_slot_id":"","google_desktop":"