Transpacific container rates rise as shippers prepare for the Lunar New Year, with Red Sea diversions causing longer lead times, reports American Shipper.

US tariffs on Chinese goods and the removal of the US$800 de minimis exemption have sharply disrupted transpacific air freight, reported London's Air Cargo Week.

OCEAN carriers plan to cut 59 sailings in the transpacific from through October, according to Drewry, reports New York's Journal of Commerce

QUESTIONS have been raised at the TPM22 conferenc2 in Los Angles by beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) and shippers as to why ocean carriers decided to deploy bigger ships on the transpacific tradelane without consulting hub ports on their ability to handle them

TRANSPACIFIC carriers through mid-December have announced post-Chinese New Year blank sailings that far exceed the average number known at this point in the last seven years, reports IHS Media

LONDON-based Drewry Shipping Consultants latest container rate benchmark for Hong Kong to Los Angeles dropped 4.3 per cent to US$2,032 per FEU in the space of less than seven days.

Transpacific freight rates to the US West Coast are 25 per cent below where they were this time last year, according to the latest data from the Freightos Baltic Index, reports Splash 247

MAERSK Line and its 2M partner Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) have blanked a number of headhaul Asia-Europe and transpacific sailings for February over the Chinese New Year period

HONG KONG's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has announced the following transpacific sailing cancellations in response to low demand during the Christmas and New Year period

COSCO is to increase capacity 45 per cent on its transpacific CEN service with Evergreen and Wan Hai taking slots, reports Alphaliner.

HONG Kong's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), now a Cosco union, has announced the cancellation to a number of transpacific sailings in response to low seasonal demand