Sea Intelligence said the main challenge with measuring the market’s supply/demand strength is that demand data is “notoriously lagged”.
Hence, in terms of the market strength, the best real-time gauge is the capacity side, where blank sailings are a key element, noted the Danish maritime data analysis firm.
The following figure shows the ramp up in Asia-North America West Coast (NAWC) blank sailings for June-August. Sea-Intelligence clarified thatthe figure shows the blank sailings for the...
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