Palm oil freight rates drop year on year; slow demand, higher tonnage signal soft start to 2025

22 hours ago | Min Jie Yaw, Tim Worledge

High palm oil stocks in key importing countries, relatively high prices of palm products versus other vegetable oils and uncertainty around European legislation all brought downward pressure to palm oil freight rates in 2024, as soft demand weighed on freight movements.

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