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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...

We are now more than half a year on from the beginning of the Red Sea crisis, and the severe impact on the container shipping industry...

Weekly container vessel capacity departing a region is rarely stable and consistent, since there are differences in the capacity of...

We have for the past 13 years, regularly analysed the online carbon emissions calculators provided by the ocean carriers. And over the...

In our Press Release on August 8th, we mentioned how US consumer spending data did not support the notion of a sudden US spending boom,...

The labour agreement between the US East Coast port workers’ union, ILA, and the terminals organization, USMX, expires on September 30th,...

The US consumer spending data released by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) shows that there has not been a sudden boom in the...

In Issue 675 of the Sea-Intelligence   Sunday Spotlight, we analysed whether the turmoil of the last four years has led to the largest...

Now that we are nearly a third of the way through the traditional container shipping peak cargo season, looking at the levels of blank...

With the 2M Alliance between the two largest shipping lines, MSC and (1st) and Maersk (2nd), coming to an end in February 2025, and with...

The initial disruptions to global supply chains triggered by the pandemic had a profound impact on non-alliance services — those operated...

Global schedule reliability improved by 3.8 percentage points M/M in May 2024, to the highest point YTD of 55.8%. On a Y/Y level however,...

New data from the US Census Bureau, detailing both sales and inventory changes in the US up until the end of April 2024, shows absolutely...