Carrier schedule reliability ‘through the floor’ - no normality till Q2 22, earliest
“…eeSea CEO and founder Simon Sundboell said on-time schedule reliability had fallen ‘through the floor...We’re seeing vessels at 20-day-plus delays and the global schedule reliability ratio is just sad to look at,’ he added.”
Maersk targets transpacific premium market with extra standalone services
“Maersk will launch two new weekly services on the transpacific in August to operate ‘exclusively’ outside its 2M alliance with MSC and Zim slot charter partnership…According to eeSea data, the average capacity of the vessels deployed by the 2M on the transpacific is 10,029 teu.”
Europe import misery grows as congestion drives more services from port to port
“North European importers are facing more vessel diversions as carriers lose patience with congested box terminals and dump their cargo at other ports.”
Return of blanked Asia-Europe sailings as carriers bid to get back on schedule
“The spectre of blank sailings may be about to return to haunt shippers and forwarders on the Asia-Europe trades, as carrier begin to cancel departures in an effort to restore schedule reliability.”
Europe’s ports set for wave of activity as Suez backlog is cleared
“…Europe’s ports are bracing themselves for a wave of incoming ships as they attempt to minimise the disruption to supply chains caused by the blockage.”
Questions being asked after box ship runs aground blocking Suez Canal
“According to eeSea data, the 2018-built Ever Given is deployed on the Ocean Alliance’s NEU6 loop and was ‘on time’ en route to Rotterdam when the incident happened at around 8am local time yesterday.”
North American port congestion shows no sign of easing
“There’s no let up in the port congestion plaguing North American gateway ports. (…) The problem the ports face is there is no let-up in inbound vessels as the below map from eeSea showing all inbound vessels for Los Angeles and Long Beach in the coming 28 days clearly highlights.”
2M snubs congested west coast ports as Asia-US pendulum services are axed
“Founder and CEO of eeSea, Simon Sundboell agreed that carriers seemed to be serious about improving the industry’s dire schedule integrity. But, he told The Loadstar today, “it’s not just solved by the flick of a finger”, noting that the chronic port congestion on the west coast “did not seem to be letting up and is reverberating through the system”.
More blank sailings ‘a harbinger’ of soaring rates on the transatlantic
“According to the eeSea liner database, blankings on the trade began escalating in May, and carriers blanked between eight and 10 sailings a month on the transatlantic from July…”
CMA CGM’s six new LNG-powered box ships destined for transpac service
“According to the eeSea liner database, CMA CGM is the sole vessel provider to the PRX service, despite space allocated to Ocean Alliance partners Cosco, OOCL and Evergreen.”
LA port boss: ‘We need to catch our breath’
“Data from Copenhagen-based eeSea supplied to Splash today (see lower map below) shows the ships crossing the Pacific, bound for Los Angeles and Long Beach...Even as Seroka calls for ships to divert, queues are building at ports further north in California, Oregon, Washington and across the border in British Columbia.”
Trans-Pacific trade crashes into max-capacity ceiling
“Schedule reliability is horrible,” said Simon Sundboell, founder of eeSea, a company that analyzes ship schedules. “These are not ‘pull-out-capacity blanks.’ These are ‘need-to-get-back-on-schedule blanks,’” Sundboell told American Shipper…”
Ocean Alliance unveils 2021 network – 'fewer and smaller changes'
“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...”
37% of all boxes are rolled over
“More than one in three containers worldwide are being rolled over, amid an unprecedented supply chain challenge hitting the liner community…”
eeSea updates for Ocean Alliance Product 2021
Ocean Alliance carriers have published upcoming 2021 product details to commence in April. Published details include service names and rotations without specific schedule information. Vessel names and capacities also remain unknown at this time.
Box carriers cut blank sailings in 2021
“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…”
Brexit and Covid blamed as Asia-UK shipping rates increase fourfold
“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…”
Fewer blank sailings forecast for 2021 as container capacity grows
“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…”
Shippers brace for tight capacity trend to continue in 2021
“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…”
Container lines cancelling hardly any services over Chinese New Year period
“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...”