Weekly analysis of container capacity and cancelled sailings

With carriers continuing to carefully adjust their schedules to meet demand, access to a regularly updated picture of service availability is more important than ever. We closely analyse the various service and schedule data feeds to understand current container capacity and anticipated market development - by alliance across the main trades, and to provide historical context include year-on-year comparisons in the weekly analysis.

Demonstration of Container Capacity Insight via Container Freight Portal

In addition to the above interactive online service subscribers receive weekly PDF Insight reports providing a summary assessment and commentary against each key trade lane. Other key areas of weekly PDF report updates include:

• ’Ease of access to capacity’ indicators, anticipating space availability on each of the following trades, for the next 5 weeks.
  • Transpacific Eastbound
  • Asia-North Europe & Mediterranean
  • South Asia-North Europe & Mediterranean
  • Transatlantic Westbound

• Data sets and areas of analysis within each weekly insight report include:
  • Infographic/global picture of the container market for the next month (capacity and spot rate fluctuations, as well as cancelled vs scheduled sailings)
  • Port congestion trend analysis and assessment of port congestion for 7 regions (using ’Z-score’ analysis)
  • Port congestion comparison between neighbouring ports
  • Weekly forward analysis of cancelled vs scheduled sailings and effective capacity deployed for each main trade lane: Transpacific Eastbound, Asia-North Europe & Mediterranean, Transatlantic Westbound and South Asia-North Europe & Mediterranean
• Year-on-year analysis:

  • Evolution of cancelled sailings (headhaul) across each main trade lane

  • Anticipated change in headhaul capacity for the next month, by trade lane and by carrier, as well as year-on year comparison

• Best case analysis and assessment of transit times for a key trade route (e.g. ECNA to North Europe)
• Trend analysis of import container dwell time at selected ports
• Average CO2 emissions and the most eco-friendly carrier on the major East-West routes
• Utilisation trend on major East-West trade routes, including South Asia to North Europe and the Med

Annexes in excel providing:

• List of the cancelled vessels, including name of the ships, capacity, operator and routing.
• Record of weekly cancelled and scheduled sailings over past 16 weeks, including next 4 weeks.
• Year-on-year monthly cancelled sailings by trade lane and alliance

’Ease of capacity access’ indicators

To provide a snapshot assessment of each main trade lane, weekly report updates include a traffic-light indicator of available capacity. Various inputs go into this indicator, including cancellation numbers and spot rate development on that trade.