News / Shippers will live with blanked sailings – so long as rates are held

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Blanked sailings and vessel slidings, departures pushed to the following week to enable better utilisation, are not causing shippers too much trouble, other than extra admin.

The most important factor, they say, is that agreed rates are honoured on the alternative sailing – even if shipment falls outside the validity period.

According to Alphaliner data, of the three vessel-sharing groupings, THE Alliance partners, Hapag-Lloyd, ONE, Yang Ming and HMM blanked the most Asia-Europe headhaul voyages in June and July, cancelling almost 20% ...