MSC blanks Swan and Dragon loops ahead of Golden Week holiday

30/08/2023

With just over a month before China’s national Golden Week holiday – after which the slack season begins in earnest – ocean carriers are belatedly ramping-up their blanking programmes.

For example, MSC advised today that, “in line with lower demand”, it would again be suspending its standalone Asia-North Europe Swan loop, this time for six consecutive weeks, from week 37 through to week 42, in mid-October.

The carrier said it would also cancel three successive sailings of its Asia-Mediterranean Dragon service, weeks ...