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Seafreight Insights
Read our Seafreight Insights to find out about the latest developments in the global sea cargo industry. Get an update on trade and rate developments as well as flexible solutions offered by cargo-partner to deal with the current challenges.
The year 2025 is just beginning, but the transport and logistics industry is already facing a mix of "familiar" challenges and newly emerging geopolitical risks. While uncertainty remains and international ocean freight could return to its previous volatile state, several factors offer an optimistic outlook for the future, including the potential for declining rates.
- A reopening of the Red Sea and Suez Canal passages may be on the horizon, as Houthi rebels have announced an end to attacks on non-Israeli vessels in the region.
- Port strikes on the US East and Gulf coasts have been averted at the last minute.
- New container alliances are set to launch in 2025, presenting both risks and opportunities for the industry.
Current market assessment from February 3, 2024:
Legend: traffic lights showing current status, arrow indicates possible development of transport rates.
Current Key Takeaways
cargo-partner Solutions:
- Rail Transport Solutions (click for more)
- Flexible Air Freight Solutions (click for more)
- Short Sea Solutions from and to Türkiye (click for more)
- Europe – India Express Service (click for more)
- Ocean Freight Management (click for more)
- Full end-to-end visibility with our Intelligent Container Tracking (click for PDF)
27,500 TEU giants will roam the sea
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Trade Analysis: Far East Eastbound
The market is currently offering a lot of free space in all loading ports. Schedule reliability is still low due to the disruptions in the Red Sea, although there is one service available…
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Trade Analysis: Far East Westbound
The recovery from the Golden Week holidays in the first week of October was smooth and swift. Due to several blank sailings on this trade lane and some ongoing schedule reliability issues,…
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Trade Analysis: Transpacific
The situation is improving, but we are still seeing some congestion, especially on the inland ramps such as Chicago, Kansas City, El Paso, and Memphis. Some minor delays are expected in the…
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Trade Analysis: Transatlantic Westbound
The small backlog caused by the ILA strike is currently stabilizing. We are only seeing higher demand for New York, all other ports are operating under normal conditions. As a result, ocean…
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Reefer Transport Solutions
Reefer ocean freight is currently still volatile, but with rates on a comparatively low level. Read more about our experts' current reefer market assessment...
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Antwerp is still on Rotterdam’s heels
The Antwerp-Bruges container port is moving ever closer to its competitor Rotterdam in a recent ranking of the largest European ports. The Belgian port’s container throughput grew by 4.1%…
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Rising Risk in the Red Sea?
Geopolitical tensions and attacks in the Red Sea have increased since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict. In the wake of this conflict, merchant shipping was affected by missile…
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Panama Canal: When Waterways Lack Water
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