News / Forwarders adopt new strategies to work around Europe-Asia capacity crisis

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Forwarders continue to struggle with the capacity crunch on the eastbound Europe-Asia tradelane, following April’s alliance reshuffle.

However, according to Jan Philipp Harnisch, Rhenus Logistics’ chief operating officer of ocean freight for Asia Pacific, the new generation of “super-carriers”, emerging from unprecedented industry consolidation, should usher in a less-volatile era in liner shipping.

“There have been years of overcapacity, but since the restructuring of the alliances we have been facing a shortage of cargo space,” he told The Loadstar.

“There were enormous rate increases on the eastbound trades ...