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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...

Spot rates continued to skyrocket this week and shippers are clearly getting anxious, in relation to how high rates may go. But the truth...

The EU carbon taxation scheme (ETS) took effect from January 2024. Very simply put, a tax must be paid for CO2 emissions for ships...

When vessel delays occur, a percentage of the global vessel capacity is effectively absorbed and hence unavailable to the market....

When forecasting the future fleet sizes of shipping lines, it is a quite common to see an approach, where the current fleet size is...

Analysing the US consumer spending data (published by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis) allows us to see whether the subcomponents...

Spot rates have been declining steadily for several months now. The shipping lines can react to this in one of two ways.

In the labyrinthine world of logistics, where goods traverse vast distances to reach their destinations

One trend has become increasingly clear from the network overviews published by the alliances: Hong Kong is being rapidly deselected from...