{"id":12508,"date":"2025-04-29T19:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/asia-usec-trade-to-lose-42-capacity-from-blank-sailings\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T19:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:25:05","slug":"asia-usec-trade-to-lose-42-capacity-from-blank-sailings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/asia-usec-trade-to-lose-42-capacity-from-blank-sailings\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia-USEC Trade to Lose 42% Capacity from Blank Sailings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">A significant wave of blank sailings is set to impact Asia\u2013U.S. container trade lanes, with U.S. East and Gulf Coast services facing the sharpest cuts. Sea-Intelligence reports that nine scheduled sailings on the Asia\u2013U.S. East Coast route will be blanked in May 5\u201311 (Week 19), reducing capacity by 42%. The U.S. West Coast will have 10 blank sailings from April 28 to May 3, cutting capacity by 28%, and again from May 12 to 18, lowering capacity by 25%.<br \/>\n<!--more-->Sea-Intelligence has indicated that these cancellations are being announced with minimal notice, a strong sign that container demand is sharply falling. The analyst commented, \u201cPresently, this is likely one of the best up-to-date indications of the impact on tactical container demand.\u201d In a previous assessment, Lars Jensen, CEO of Vespucci Maritime, had predicted that last-minute blank sailings to the U.S. would be if there was a notable decline in bookings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Drewry\u2019s Blank Sailings Tracker confirms the trend, recording 72 planned cancellations between now and the end of May. Of these, 56% affect the Trans-Pacific trades, with 31% on Asia\u2013Europe routes and 14% on Trans-Atlantic routes. Drewry noted, \u201cA rise in cancelled sailings is expected in coming weeks, predominantly in the Trans-Pacific Eastbound, booking cancellations continue to climb, with some vessels potentially departing China with significant empty space through May.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Hapag-Lloyd spokesperson stated on Wednesday that 30% of shipments to the U.S. from China had been canceled by its customers. The container shipping firm noted a sharp increase in demand for shipments from Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Source:\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/asia-usec-shippers-to-lose-42-capacity-in-a-surge-of-blanked-sailings\/\" href=\"https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/asia-usec-shippers-to-lose-42-capacity-in-a-surge-of-blanked-sailings\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">The Loadstar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant wave of blank sailings is set to impact Asia\u2013U.S. container trade lanes, with U.S. East and Gulf Coast services facing the sharpest cuts. Sea-Intelligence reports that nine scheduled sailings on the Asia\u2013U.S. East Coast route will be blanked in May 5\u201311 (Week 19), reducing capacity by 42%. The U.S. West Coast will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[342],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-12508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-hapag-lloyd-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508","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=12508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12509,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508\/revisions\/12509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12508"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=12508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}