Unlike a discretionary rate hike, inflation adjustment in freight rates is a contractual mechanism that passes rising input costs – fuel, labour, equipment – onto the freight rate according to a predefined formula.
Source: https://www.supplychaindigital.com/transportation/inflation-adjustment-freight-rates
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