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The latest twist in the increasingly bizarre world of container shipping has seen carriers this week put a complete halt on all new bookings on the westbound North Europe-Asia route, until mid-May at the earliest.

First out of the blocks was Maersk, naturally, with a customer advisory claiming that a backlog of eastbound boxes had been building up since Chinese New Year, when carriers suspended a series of sailings out of Asia due to low demand and unfeasibly low freight rates.

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