According to the weekly analysis from Drewry, there has been 94 canceled sailings announced across the major shipping routes (Transpacific, Transatlantic, and Asia-North Europe & Med) out of a total of 748 scheduled sailings. The cancellation rate stands at 13%.
Since January, the NY-NJ Port has been confronting a severe container imbalance, with over 200,000 containers sitting at the port, resulting in worse delays in the US supply chain. It has to process record import volumes with the empty containers waiting and accumulating. Port officials were eager to solve the problem by imposing a container imbalance fee. In this way could the evacuation of containers be accelerated.
The strike action in Felixstowe Port was expected to enter its final day in late August. 1900-plus dock workers have demonstrated their mutual solidarity by acting together to demand an effective pay increase. However, things did not go smooth. The port operator Hutchison made suggestions that dockers would turn up for work anyway.