News / Port of Seattle becomes the latest casualty of container congestion

Photo: Port of Seattle

The 2M carriers, Maersk and MSC, with VSA partner Zim, will drop Seattle from the schedule of their TP9/Eagle/ZP9 service from this week, due to port congestion.

The omission will commence with the Zim-deployed 5,610 teu Akinada Bridge call this week.

MSC said the decision was “due to the increased waiting time for vessel berthing”, which it said was “impacting schedule reliability and causing delays to shipments”.

However, the carriers said the omission was “temporary”.

According to eeSea data, the 2M and Zim deploy ...