indicated a limited use of slow steaming on the europe-south america trades(with around 30 percent of services operating slow steaming)as compared with over 80percent of services operating slow steaming on those between europe and far east the study concludes that a differentiated strategy by shipping lines of sailing at a different speed depending on the leg or of using hubs instead of direct services maybe recommended such differentiated strategy would also take into account the sensitivity of demand to transit time such as for example by distinguishing between frozen and dry and fresh products