{"id":11571,"date":"2025-02-11T15:58:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/more-blanked-sailings-carriers-will-not-sit-on-their-hands-while-rates-collapse\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T16:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:01:38","slug":"more-blanked-sailings-carriers-will-not-sit-on-their-hands-while-rates-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/more-blanked-sailings-carriers-will-not-sit-on-their-hands-while-rates-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"More Blanked Sailings: &#8216;Carriers Will Not Sit on Their Hands While Rates Collapse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Last week\u2019s Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI), which collates quotes for the forthcoming week, saw declines across all its trade routes, bar a 10% week-on-week increase on China-Mexico.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The SCFI\u2019s China-North Europe and China-Mediterranean dropped 16% and 5% on the previous week, respectively, while the rates to the U.S. west and east coasts both fell 5% week on week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPost-Chinese New Year though to the end of February there are going to be some very attractive spot rates out of Asia \u2013 this is a market run purely by supply and demand,\u201d explained Zencargo VP of global ocean freight Anne Sophie Fribourg.<\/p>\n<p>The main lever for carriers to halt the slide in rates is to curtail capacity, and Xeneta head analyst Peter Sand warned recently that the number of blanked sailings was likely to significantly increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarriers will not sit on their hands while freight rates collapse. They will do everything they can to keep rates elevated, and have got much smarter at capacity management in recent years,\u201d said Sand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill it be enough? Hardly,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Read more in an\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_27d8a9e0-44e9-453f-b4ea-9c0d6d94377a&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyx38cnp6yrb4edu62whecdqpubvddxt6abb2dhgpwuv5cgpq6rb9dhmpwtvk5nhp2wkjd5jq4wtdexmprv1ddtqq8bbkd5u2uvve5nu6gtb9e8ppgrbechtjuxv8d5p6abbjc5u6awtdcdqprv31e1tpabr&amp;n=8\" href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_27d8a9e0-44e9-453f-b4ea-9c0d6d94377a&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyx38cnp6yrb4edu62whecdqpubvddxt6abb2dhgpwuv5cgpq6rb9dhmpwtvk5nhp2wkjd5jq4wtdexmprv1ddtqq8bbkd5u2uvve5nu6gtb9e8ppgrbechtjuxv8d5p6abbjc5u6awtdcdqprv31e1tpabr&amp;n=8\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">article from The Loadstar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week\u2019s Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI), which collates quotes for the forthcoming week, saw declines across all its trade routes, bar a 10% week-on-week increase on China-Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":11569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1568,1569],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-11571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-scfi-en","tag-shanghai-containerized-freight-index-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11572,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11571\/revisions\/11572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11571"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=11571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}