eeSea Blank Sailings Tracker

In the wake of Covid-19, managing the market supply of vessel capacity became a hot topic. Vessel arrival performance and cargo deliveries are down, freight rates are up and authorities are getting involved.

eeSea’s Blank Sailings Tracker helps you maintain an overview of what has been cancelled and when - by trade or port.

 

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Updated: November 21, 2022

How to use

The filters on the right can be applied to show your desired trade lane, and whether you want to see origin or destination region months.

Terms of use

You are welcome to use the information as it is or broken down - but only against proper reference. This reference has to include the name eeSea AND a URL link to this specific page - regardless of whether the usage is internal, external or public.

 

 Making the Data work for you.

eeSea’s blank sailings data is compiled at the port call level, which allows us to aggregate up to any desired category: trade lane, alliance, service, vessel, port, country, or anything in between.

Check out these sample views:

 
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Detailed Service overview - Capacity & Sailings
Detailed Service overview - Capacity & Sailings

This view allows you to dig down to a “per vessel” level on any chosen service, showing both sailings & capacity data for all months spanning Q4 2020 & Q1 2021.

Filtering allows you to display only the information that you are interested in - here we see all Tokyo port calls on the THEA - PN1.

Sailings Overview by Port - monthly traffic lights
Sailings Overview by Port - monthly traffic lights

This view allows you to dig down to a “per service” level, showing actual sailings and blank sailings data for all months of H1 2020. We call this a “traffic light” report, as the colored dots indicate whether a particular sailing was blanked or not.

Filtering allows you to display only the information that you are interested in - here we see all services that call the Canadian ports Halifax, Montreal, Prince Rupert or Vancouver.

Regional Sailings Overview
Regional Sailings Overview

This view allows you to dig down to a “per port” level, showing proforma and blank sailings data for all months spanning Q4 2020 and Q1 2021.

Filtering allows you to display only the information that you are interested in - here we see all ports in the selected countries, which are Belgium, Germany, Italy & the Netherlands in this case.

Detailed Trade Lane Sailings overview
Detailed Trade Lane Sailings overview

This view allows you to dig down to a “per service” level, showing proforma and blank sailings data for all months of Q1 2021.

Filtering allows you to display only the information that you are interested in - here we see all services by the alliances THEA, 2M & OCEAN within the East -> North America trade lane.

Additional information & subscription

Deeper insights and more granular data are available with a subscription:

  • TEU capacity & sailings - proforma, actual and blanked

  • By trade lane - or port, country, region

  • More granular trade lanes - eg split by NEUR/MED, ECNA/WCNA, ISC/APG/RSE, WAF/SAF/EAF

  • By alliance, service, VSA partner, vessel operator

  • By date, week, month, quarter, year

 

Blank sailings are closely related to effective trade capacity

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“We use eeSea's combined Blank Sailings Tracker and Trade Capacity Index to better gauge chassis demand and as an additional tool to support our planning to meet our customers needs at US port gateways.”

— Ron Widdows
CEO, Flexivan