Ocean Alliance will cancel 24 sailings, THE Alliance 16, 2M Alliance 16 and non-alliance carriers 34 sailings. Carriers will ramp up blank sailings by over 1.5 times, adding 53 more
cancellations between weeks 38 and 42 compared to the previous five weeks, according to the latest update from Dimerco. “Drewry’s weekly analysis on September 13 reported that 90 blank sailings have been announced out of 692 scheduled, reflecting a 13 percent cancellation rate. The majority of these cancellations (67 percent) are concentrated on the Trans-Pacific Eastbound (TPEB) route, followed by 21 percent on the Asia-Europe/Med routes and 12 percent on the Transatlantic.”