Port Congestion

Port Congestion

Port Congestion Up As Delayed Vessels Arrived in Europe

Global port congestion deteriorated last week, with a rise in European congestion around Southern Spain and UK ports. The increased number of vessels calling at Valencia and Barcelona as well as bunching of ship arrivals have resulted in berthing delays of 2-3 days. The hub ports in the western Med, including Algeciras, Tanger and Las Palmas have also seen more vessel calls as relay ports for cargo to the rest of the Med and Upper Red Sea areas. This situation is expected to continue with Red Se

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Port Congestion Eased Further Last Week

Global port congestion continues to ease with a notable fall in congestion at Chinese ports. Overall congestion at North Asia’s ports have dropped to their lowest levels since June 2021, with no serious congestion reported apart from Ningbo and Shanghai but average waiting times have fallen to less than 1 day. North American port congestion is limited at Oakland (up to 6 days), Tacoma (up to 4 days) and Savannah (up to 3 days) with no congestion reported at the main terminals at LA/LB and NY/NJ

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Congestion Up Among Chinese Ports

Global port congestion picked up last week with rising waiting times observed in Chinese ports ahead of the Chinese New Year, with the longest delays seen at Ningbo where waiting times have stretched to 3 days, with shorter delays seen in Qingdao, Shanghai and some of the main Pearl River Delta ports. Delays at Australian ports remain high at up to 10 days at Brisbane, with slightly shorter delays also seen at Melbourne and Sydney. Congestion at North American ports is limited with LA/LB and N

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Diversion Delayed Arrivals Eased Port Congestion For Now

Global port congestion eased further over the past week, with delays at Chinese ports improving. The intermittent port closures at Ningbo, Shanghai and Qingdao due to weather related reasons have reduced. The delayed arrivals of vessels that were diverted to the Cape route since mid December has also resulted in a lower number of ships at Chinese ports, , resulting in reduced vessel bunching and shorter delays. This has also filtered down to the downstream ports in Asia such as Singapore and Bu

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THE re-routing eased Panama congestion, for now

Congestion at Panama has started to ease after THE Alliance cancelled all of their southbound Panama transits on their all-water services EC1, EC2 and EC6 as of last week, with omissions also planned on all of the northbound transits starting from next week onwards. At least 5 of these ships on the backhaul route will be returning via the Cape of Good Hope and avoiding the Suez Canal as well. However, all of the headhaul sailings on the 3 affected all-water strings will still take the Suez Route

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Panama Canal congestion set to worsen as Ships Attacked near Suez

The missile attack on NUMBER 9, an OOCL operated ship on 3 December has broadened the threat to all ships passing through the Red Sea, even those that have no links to Israel. Zim has already diverted its ships from the Suez to the longer Cape of Good Hope, while Maersk has also diverted 2 ships chartered from Israeli interests following the attack on the CMA CGM SYMI on 25 November. Among 3 ships attacked in Red Sea the past Sunday (3 Dec), the 4,253 teu NUMBER 9 that was targeted by the miss

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Panama Canal congestion set to worsen

The Panama Canal transit restrictions have started to impact containerships for the first time, with a rising number of ships facing delays that are set to worsen over the next 2 months. The limits on vessel transits that have been implemented since 1 November will see the daily transit limit cut from 32 to 18 for all kind of vessels by February next year, with transits for neo-panamax to be limited to 5 daily or 35 weekly. Containerships currently account for 29 weekly neo-panamax transits

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Global Port Congestion Watch: Rising

Total vessel capacity waiting at ports increased to 1.94m teu or 6.5% of the fleet at the end of last week, with a growing number of ships waiting at Chinese ports. While port operations at Chinese ports remain normal, the rising number of ships waiting was due to scheduled delays for vessels phasing in/phasing out as well as ships entering and leaving drydock in China. The congestion situation in South Africa has continued to deteriorate with delays extended up to 10 days. Total capacity waiti

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Global Congestion Continues to Ease

Carriers have retained their services to Israel and are continuing to accept bookings with the Israeli ports of Haifa and Ashdod remaining open through the week with only minor congestion issues reported due to increased security checks and labour shortages. Congestion in the rest of the Med region also appears to be under control with no vessel build up recorded. Global congestion has continued to ease with only minor delays reports in several hotspots, with Savannah continuing to see the wor

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No Delays To Containerships Passing Panama

Total containership capacity waiting at anchorages edged up slightly at the end of last week to 1.61m teu or 5.8% of the global fleet with a slight build up of ships in China with the start of the Golden Week holidays. The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has reduced the number of vessel passage from 32 per day currently to 31 from 1 November 2023. The current restriction are already reduced from the normal limit of 36 transits per day have been imposed since 30 July 2023. These restrictions have n

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