The main container ports in North Europe were eerily quiet at the weekend, due to the almost week-long blockage of the Suez Canal by the Ever Given. But now, an armada of late-running ULCVs is enroute from the Mediterranean, providing an intense challenge for vessel operators to turn ships around as quickly as...
The traditional April network adjustments by the three east-west alliances are likely to take a back seat this year as carriers navigate their way through the fall-out from the week-long Suez Canal blockage. Even before the enforced week-long delay of the waterway’s north and southbound convoys, THE Alliance was the only vessel...
The Suez Canal is set to resume operations today after the 20,388 teu Ever Given was re-floated overnight. While the vessel’s bow remained stuck on one side of the waterway this morning, the high spring tide this afternoon allowed salvors to re-float the entire ship and unblock the waterway after a week...
To improve schedule reliability, 2M partners Maersk and MSC are to avoid congested US west coast ports with two transpacific pendulum services. From this week, the AE1/Shogun and AE6/Lion loops from Asia will turn in North Europe instead of going on to the US. And to “facilitate the network adjustments”, the 2M said...
