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This past week, MSC scheduled the deployment of 23,000+ TEU vessels on their Asia-WAF ‘Africa Express’ service. At present, the largest...

Figure 1 shows the ratio of laden imports between the East and West Coast North America ports. A figure higher than 1 represents more...

When the Red Sea crisis emerged and vessels began sailing around Africa, the Asia-Europe supply chain became 7-14 days longer, depending...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently published the January 2025 update to their World Economic Outlook (WEO) report, which was...

February 1st marked the start of a new competitive landscape in the pivotal deep-sea container trades from Asia to North America and...

The latest inventories data from the US Census Bureau shows that the US retailers are continuing to grow inventories, beyond what sales...

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development release a quarterly Port Liner Shipping Connectivity Index (PLSCI), giving ports...

This year, Chinese New Year (CNY) will fall on January 29, which means that it is only a little over 3 weeks away. It also falls only a...

The current three-alliance structure in container shipping has been present since April 2017, and will be for another month, before a new...

The current three-alliance structure in container shipping has been in place since April 2017, when Ocean Alliance and THE Alliance...

The current three-alliance structure has been in place since April 2017, when Ocean Alliance and THE Alliance launched operationally,...

The major carriers have reported a combined 2024-Q3 EBIT of USD 17.06bn, which is a 600% increase Y/Y – the Y/Y increase is discounting...

Since 2019, the most reliable of the top-13 global carriers in each month, has rarely been the most reliable carrier in more than 30% of...

US consumer spending data for September 2024 has been released by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), and the growth rate of US...

The latest data from the US Census Bureau shows that there is a consistent inventory increase in the retail sector. Not only are...

From a network design perspective, for every weekly deep-sea liner service, one vessel would be scheduled to depart from an origin region...

It is well-known that all deep-sea trades, to some degree, tend to be lopsided, with one end of the trade importing more than they are...

Fortunately, the long-feared strike in the US East Coast ports, ended after just three days of strike, and the members of the...

ETS (European Union’s Emissions Trading System) is the de-facto carbon taxation for shipping in the EU. All vessels sailing within, or to...

Gemini, Premier Alliance, and MSC have all announced their 2025 networks. Ocean Alliance have not yet announced a ‘2025’ network, and...