“Fewer and smaller changes are being made in this ‘spring cleaning’ each year,” said eeSea founder and CEO Simon Sundboell. “It used to be a major thing, but the carriers no longer wait until April with desired changes, but execute them during the year...”

“More than one in three containers worldwide are being rolled over, amid an unprecedented supply chain challenge hitting the liner community…”

“Container carriers have fewer cancelled sailings going into this year compared to 2020 when several sailings were blanked in the wake of the post-Christmas slump, Chinese New Year and Covid-19 crisis, according to an analysis by eeSea…”

“Giant container carriers left off the coast of Singapore during the most stringent coronavirus measures last spring have already re-entered the shipping market to help ship containers to Europe, according to Simon Sundboell, boss of maritime intelligence company eeSea…”

“Very few sailings have so far been cancelled for the Q2 2021 period, whereas in 2020, Q2 cancellations amounted to 14.7% of expected sailings.

Simon Sundboell, CEO of maritime and supply chain intelligence company eeSea, said…”

“The maritime and supply chain analysis firm eeSea found that just 1.7% in February and 0.6% in March of head haul sailings on the three main East/West liner trades have been cancelled in 2021, compared to the 19.9% and 9.4% cancellation rates for those months last year…”

“Analyst eeSea (…) said that effective capacity in January 2021 on the main east-west head haul trades was up 7.6%, over the same period in 2020, when Covid-19 was only starting to make an impact on the Chinese market in the run-up to CNY...”

“Data from eeSea’s Blank Sailings Tracker is showing that 1.7% and 0.6% of head haul sailings on the three main East/West liner trades have been cancelled in February and March 2021 respectively, compared to the 19.9% and 9.4% sailings cancelled in the same months last year…”

“Data from eeSea’s Blank Sailings Tracker is showing that 1.7% and 0.6% of head haul sailings on the three main East/West liner trades have been cancelled in February and March 2021 respectively, compared to the 19.9% and 9.4% sailings cancelled in the same months last year…”

“According to a blanked sailing database produced by maritime intelligence company eeSea, carriers have cancelled only 1.7% of February head haul sailings on the Far East to North America, Far East to Europe, and Europe to North America routes, the three most active container trades worldwide…”

“Data from eeSea’s Blank Sailings Tracker is showing that 1.7% and 0.6% of head haul sailings on the three main East/West liner trades have been cancelled in February and March 2021 respectively, compared to the 19.9% and 9.4% sailings cancelled in the same months last year…”

“Ocean carrier tracking firm eeSea recently told the Loadstar that on all of the major trunk routes - transatlantic, transpacific and Asia-Europe - only two percent of head haul sailings have been canceled for next month, and less than one percent in the month after…”

“Announced blank sailings for what is normally shipping’s slack season are far fewer this year than previously, according to data from liner database eeSea’s Blank Sailings Tracker…”

“India has offered Bangladesh shippers the use of its seaports for export and import trade to third countries…”

“The battle to transport South American cherries is under way, with exporters firmly focused on Chinese markets, where the yields are best…”

“Container spot rates continued to climb on the Asia-Europe trades this week on the back of strong demand and extremely tight capacity, in terms of both vessel and equipment availability…”

“Just months after transforming its Asia-Europe rail offering into a weekly service, Maersk is set to double capacity again and offer two departures a week…”

“THE Alliance plans to blank a quarter of its Asia-North Europe sailings in the first week of December, coinciding with lead line Hapag-Lloyd’s plans to hike its rates on the route by 70%…”