Schedule slidings

Carriers claim ‘sliding’ services will help them recover shattered schedules

More ships are being held at departure ports in Asia for a week or more, as carriers wrestle with the recovery of their shattered schedules.
They have drawn a blank in their attempts to secure additional capacity to mitigate the impact of port congestion, and are warning shippers to expect more sailings to be delayed.
Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen told customers today the carrier’s fleet was “fully deployed and stretched beyond …

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‘Slidings’, port omissions and short-notice network changes replace blanking

Scheduling ‘slidings’, ad-hoc port omissions and short-notice network structural changes are replacing blankings as the new challenges for shippers in 2021.
The latest advisory on “service adjustments” comes from 2M partners Maersk and MSC, relating to the transpacific tradelane.
MSC said it had decided to make some “additional structural changes” on its transpacific network until further notice.
And Maersk said: “Due to market demand volatility and operational challenges caused by the Covid-19...

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‘Slidings’ replacing blank voyages as ocean carriers stretch transit times

Ocean carriers are looking to extend transit times in a bid to improve schedule reliability and cut costs
They are starting to add more buffer time into schedules to mitigate the impact of chronic global port congestion.
Hapag-Lloyd said today it was adding seven days to the westbound schedule of its AS2 Asia to South America east coast schedule for 13 weeks – one of two loops it operates on the trade …

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