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The grid

Six corridors,
one weekly read.

Ranges reflect typical all-in pricing for a shipper without a locked-in contract. Actual quotes depend on commodity, equipment, origin/destination pairs and current booking posture.

Corridor	Mode	Transit	Price band	Capacity	Week-on-week
Shanghai → Los Angeles SHA → LAX	Ocean FCL 40'HC	14–18 days	Sample US$2,400–2,900	Healthy. Multiple direct strings.	↔ Steady
Ningbo → Hamburg NGB → HAM	Ocean FCL 40'HC	32–38 days	Sample US$3,100–3,700	Tightening. Red Sea routings still adding 7–10 days.	↑ +3–5%
Hong Kong → New York HKG → JFK	Air express	3–5 days	Sample US$5.80–7.20 / kg	Adequate. Lithium surcharges holding.	↔ Steady
Shenzhen → Chicago SZX → ORD	Air standard	5–8 days	Sample US$5.20–6.80 / kg	Soft mid-week. E-com pre-peak lull.	↓ −2–4%
LA / Long Beach drayage Port → Ontario CA	Drayage, per container move	Same day	Sample US$700–950	Chassis availability easier than Q4. No congestion surcharge this week.	↓ −5%
MX ↔ US cross-border MTY / LRD → TX interior	FTL cross-border	2–4 days	Sample US$2,800–3,600 / load	Southbound soft; northbound tight. Empty repositioning chargeable.	↔ Steady

What's driving the week

Reading
the numbers above.

Short context notes for each corridor. Tune advice to your own lane mix and contract coverage.

SHA → LAX is steady this week on direct strings. Spot and contract holders are within a few hundred dollars of each other; unusual to see, and a reasonable moment to re-benchmark an NVOCC rate against a direct carrier programme.
NGB → HAM continues to absorb the Suez/Red Sea reroute. Transit is the issue more than the rate — plan seven to ten extra days of in-transit inventory on Asia–EU bookings until the routing normalises.
HKG → JFK air is where lithium capacity is holding steady. Lithium-compliant forwarders have space for the next 14 days; non-lithium shippers can likely get cheaper rates off-peak.
SZX → ORD air is soft mid-week, reflecting a seasonal e-commerce pre-peak lull. A good week for non-urgent standard-air bookings; hold express capacity for genuine urgency.
LA / LB drayage is easier than at any point in the last twelve months. Per-move rates down, chassis available, no congestion surcharge this week. Worth revisiting drayage contracts that were signed during the shock.
MX ↔ US cross-border is the usual mirror asymmetry — southbound soft, northbound tight. Round-trip pricing is the leverage on this lane, not single-leg rates.

Sample All commentary above is illustrative for this initial seed snapshot and will be refreshed with live market notes weekly.

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