Transpacific graveyard

Opinion

Friday, November 04, 2011

Transpacific services are dropping away by the week as the liner carrier industry girds itself for the traditional winter slack season with some quite untraditional dynamics at work. According to statistics from American Shipper liner research affiliate ComPair Data , 11 percent of eastbound transpacific capacity has been withdrawn since the start of July. There’s now an estimated 355,000 TEUs of weekly allocated capacity, compared to nearly 400,000 TEUs in early July. &nbs...

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