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Red Sea crisis and port congestion drive blank sailing surge

Box lines are tradionally using blank sailings to manage supply in relation to demand, but during the pandemic, shipping lines were forced to blank...

Sea-Intelligence reports sharp drop in blank sailings

Spot rates have experienced a continuous decline over the past several months. In response, shipping lines face two possible strategies. One option is to increase...

Carriers set for major blanking programme

Hong Kong consultancy Linerlytica suggests that the carriers are struggling to achieve the General Rate Increases (GRIs) that they have supposedly imposed amongst the...

Running out of time to bring capacity down, reports Sea-Intelligence

Danish maritime data analysts of Sea-Intelligence looked at the post-Golden week capacity deployment on Transpacific and Asia-Europe in the 42nd week of the year...

Blank sailings boost NCFI

The composite Ningbo Containerized Freight Index (NCFI) quoted 622.2 points in Week 41, which improved 4.8% from the previous week and has remained on...

Blanked sailings gain pace following China’s Golden Week holiday

Vespucci Maritime's Lars Jensen wrote in the Baltic Exchange's latest commentary that the number of sailings being blanked in the wake of Golden Week...

Container lines add blank sailings to match supply with lower demand in Golden Week

With the upcoming Golden Week holiday in Asia in early October, as factories close, and container demand to and from Asia declines, shipping lines...

More blanked sailings expected in October

Vespucci Maritime CEO Jars Jensen predicts that a wave of blank sailings could be announced in October, as China’s exports are set to fall...

Sea-Intelligence analysis: Shortage of blanks in Golden week

Sea-Intelligence reports that we are currently 5 weeks away from the Chinese National Holiday known as Golden Week, and carriers may turn to blank...

Blanked sailings now the norm

Blanked Asia-Europe sailings have become expected in liner operators' routines, according to Alphaliner's latest report today (16 August). Record newbuilding deliveries have made operators reduce...

Sea-Intelligence analysis: Clear ramp-up in Transpacific blank sailings

Sea Intelligence said the main challenge with measuring the market’s supply/demand strength is that demand data is "notoriously lagged". Hence, in terms of the market...

Maersk vessel to omit Napier due to weather conditions

Maersk announced that due to the ongoing impact of current weather conditions and high swells on shipping movements at Napier port in Australia, the...

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