News / Return of blanked Asia-Europe sailings as carriers bid to get back on schedule

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The spectre of blank sailings may be about to return to haunt shippers and forwarders on the Asia-Europe trades, as carrier begin to cancel departures in an effort to restore schedule reliability.

Japanese carrier ONE this morning told customers THE Alliance would cancel three sailings on the FE2 and FE3 service departing Asia at the end of May and beginning of June, “due to the unfortunate schedule delays”.

The scheduled departure of the FE2 sailing from Pusan on 30 May has been ...