Industry news & Vesper highlights
Freight costs are moving in one direction this month, and procurement teams importing through North Europe should plan for more of it. According to logistics provider Shypple’s latest market update, rates from Asia to North Europe have risen for six straight weeks, and the Drewry World Container Index rose 23 percent in the first week […]
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Cocoa had been one of the quieter commodity markets of late spring. Futures barely moved over the prior fortnight, shrugging...
The arrival of new Sathi paddy reset India’s basmati rice market in early June. May had ended with exporters finding...
India’s spice complex spent the first half of June stuck in the same standoff. Arrivals kept thinning across most of...
Brazil delivered its strongest poultry export month on record in May 2026, yet the milestone is shadowed by a real...
Egg prices are falling in both Europe and the US, but the forces behind the move could hardly be more...
The global nut complex is splitting between tightening tree-nut supply and a still-soft hazelnut market, according to ofi’s latest monthly...
European cheese markets have continued to soften in recent weeks. With Q3 coverage mostly behind them, almost all buyers have...
Cocoa prices fell over the past week as supportive West African weather and a jump in Ivory Coast arrivals shifted...
Coffee futures fell again last week, with the most active July contract down 13.3 cents to 245.9 US cents/lb, according...
