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In issue 729 of the Sea-Intelligence Sunday Spotlight, we analysed the current level of announced blank sailings for the upcoming 2025...

In issue 728 of the Sea-Intelligence Sunday Spotlight, we analysed the performance of US ports during the sharp contraction of laden...

In issue 727 of the Sea-Intelligence Sunday Spotlight , we analysed the "trade whiplash" effect — a violent boom-bust cycle in US imports...

In issue 726 of the Sea-Intelligence Sunday Spotlight we analyse the weekly capacity offered on individual liner services and find it has...

In issue 725 of the Sea-Intelligence Sunday Spotlight , we review the developments in capacity market shares of the current top-10...

In issue 724 of the Sea-Intelligence Sunday Spotlight, using the latest vessel deployment data, we show that the capacity surge on the...

In issue 723 of the Sea-Intelligence Sunday Spotlight, we analyse the dramatic reversal in years of progress in reducing the container...

On April 9 th , 2025, the US announced 145% tariffs on China, stifling Transpacific container shipping demand, and the shipping lines...

In Sea-Intelligence Sunday Spotlight issue 721, we analysed the weekly volatility in the capacity offered in the Asia to the North...

In issue 720 of the Sunday Spotlight , we analysed port performance in terms of schedule reliability, across the 202 deep-sea ports with...

Niche carriers – the relatively smaller carriers with limited deep-sea scope – accounted for 7%-10% of the total weekly capacity deployed...

The pause in the US-China trade war, and the associated demand boom, has caused a scramble amongst shipping lines to inject capacity...

With no pre-warning, the US Administration and China announced that they had reached an agreement, partly pausing tariffs for 90 days –...

Over the past several weeks, we have reported on a sharp week-by-week increase in the number of blank sailings on the Transpacific. When...

The impact of the US tariff war continues to have a direct impact on container shipping operations, as the number of cancelled sailings...

The current political climate is extremely volatile and given that tariffs are being imposed and suspended on an almost daily basis, we...

In 30+ years of container shipping alliances, the domain of the alliances has always been exclusively on mainliner, deep-sea services,...

Container freight rates have a strong seasonal tendency to weaken in the period following Chinese New Year (CNY). In 2025, however, the...

The major shipping lines (that report on – and have so far published – their financial figures), have recorded a combined 2024-FY EBIT of...

Global container volumes continued showing strength in January 2025, reaching 15.4 million TEU, a Y/Y growth of 5.8%, according to data...