News / As shipping's 'seasonal lull' remains anything but, rollovers continue to climb

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Container rollovers at the world’s leading transhipment ports began to climb again last month, according to new research from tracking data provider Ocean Insights.

After a global decline in rollovers during September, there were increasing numbers of shipments missing their scheduled loadings with almost every carrier.

“This is supposed to be container shipping’s seasonal lull after the summer peak season,” said Josh Brazil, chief operations officer at Ocean Insights.

“But on some tradelanes, freight rates are near record levels and ships are still ...