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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...

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,...