Higher freight costs pushing up food prices in Singapore

Smaller food ingredient suppliers feel the heat. Some are passing on the costs, others want to keep their customers

Published Sat, Jun 5, 2021 · 05:50 AM

Singapore

IF YOUR hawker takeaways cost 50 cents or a dollar more, it is because higher freight costs and commodity prices are creeping into consumer food prices here. Some food-ingredient suppliers have already noted a doubling in the cost of essential food ingredients such as oil.

The price surge has been significant enough in some cases to push the hawkers into passing on some of the cost to their customers, said Anthony Low, chairman of the Federation of Merchants' Associations hawker division.