News / Ocean carriers 'fire blanks' ahead of China’s Golden Week holiday

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Fearing another container spot rate crash, ocean carriers have blanked a number of export sailings from Asia to Europe and Asia to the US, prior to the Chinese national holiday in early October.

A carrier contact told The Loadstar this week he expected to see “many more” void sailings this year in the key soft-demand weeks of the slack season.

 “We are determined not to get sucked into another rates war this year, and as long ...