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Category: Sea

Freight market report – March 2023

Further pressure on freight markets will build as airline passenger capacity is added and the container shipping lines receive new-build vessels, but there are hopes that rate erosion may still ease, as rock-bottom prices are not good if carriers decide…

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Freight market report – February 2023

Even as rates move back to pre-COVID levels and port congestion and delays clear away, our freight market reports and insights aid decision making and the avoidance of supply chain risk.  The continued fall in global container freight rates that…

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Shipping lines cancel a quarter of sailings from China

In the pre and post-Chinese New Year (CNY) period, from 1st January to 17th February, Alphaliner has calculated that the three big carrier alliances plan to skip 27% of their originally scheduled Asia – Europe sailings. In a normal year,…

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Freight market report – January 2023

Our first freight market report of 2023 provides multi-modal situation updates and insights, together with China and carrier updates, that will provide you with critical insights for the weeks ahead. (more…)

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Freight market report – December 2022

Our last freight market report of the year provides multi-modal situation updates and insights, together with China and carrier updates, that will provide you with critical insights for the weeks ahead. Most Chinese regional supply chains, road transport, air and…

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Freight market report – November 2022

Our latest freight market report provides multi-modal situation updates and insights, together with strike and carrier updates, that will provide you with critical insights for the weeks ahead. (more…)

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Ocean lead times from China improving

The world’s biggest trade lanes carry goods from Asia to Europe and the US, and the time it takes to leave the exporter in Asia to the time it is collected from the destination port reached all time highs earlier…

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IMO 2023 poses yet another shipping challenge

From the 1st January 2023 container ships will need to meet a round of new ECO regulations, in a development that will reduce the supply of vessels in the container shipping market and may contribute to increasing costs and lower…

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