Shippers are increasingly paying more to move their products, as shipping costs in the second quarter rose at three times the rate of consumer prices, according to a market report from supply chain software provider Deposco. Those rising costs came even as demand faded from its June peak, collapsing the margin cushion operators carry into peak season from 9.7 points to 0.6 between April and July, the report said. As operators are absorbing two separate cost pressures at once; input costs rising 6% upstream through the Producer Price Index and shipping costs rising 12.8%, while consumer prices absorb only 3.9%. Order volumes continued to rise even as dollar growth slowed, suggesting lower spending per order. The data comes from Deposco’s Commerce Signal report, a quarterly intelligence report based on live network data from the firm’s e-commerce fulfillment platform.