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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...

This Press Release is a follow-up to the one published on March 21st, where we discussed the 2023-FY results. Here, we will look at the...

In 2023-FY, all shipping lines saw sharp Y/Y decline in revenues, ranging between -46.6% and -62.6%. However, the annualised revenue...