News / Yet another Europe-Asia container capacity crunch rears its head

2M alliance partners Maersk and MSC have advised their North European customers of five void Asia sailings in March, and the members of the Ocean and THE alliances are expected to confirm a similar number of cancellations.

A Maersk customer advisory said: “The blankings are occurring in connection with the blanked westbound sailings due to the Chinese New Year seasonal demand reductions.”

At the time of writing, The Loadstar was unable to obtain clarification of the number of blanked backhaul sailings operated by ...