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Maersk to up Asia-Europe rates by $ 800 per TEU

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters): Maersk Line, part of Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk, plans to increase shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe by $ 800 per 20-foot container (TEU) from 15 January, it said

last week. Rates on the route, the world’s busiest for container shipping, fell by 5.6% in the last week of 2014 to $ 1,085 per TEU, data showed on Friday.