Shipping market review: diverging trends across global shipping sectors
December 19, 2025
This OECD working paper analyzes how changes in container shipping costs affect import prices – specifically for manufactured goods – and how those effects trickle down to consumer inflation, especially core inflation (excluding food and energy). Pass-through is smaller than previously estimated, primarily due to the focus on non-commodity manufactured goods. Countries reliant on seaborne trade are more affected. Shipping […]
