Shipping Trends | Global Maritime Hub - Part 12

Category: Shipping Trends

Box momentum shifts back to U.S. West Coast ports

August 27, 2025

Idle fleet remains low despite falling freight rates

August 22, 2025

Deep-sea Container RoRo ships: only Grimaldi sticks with the concept

August 21, 2025

MSC’s fleet approaching 6.8 Mteu of total capacity

August 15, 2025

COSCO Group leads Far East-India/Middle East/Red Sea trade

August 15, 2025

Alternative-propulsion Container Ships poised to claim majority of TEU capacity

July 31, 2025

Bullish sale and purchase market undeterred by uncertainties

July 31, 2025

Container ship demolitions at historic lows

July 31, 2025

Maersk quadruples capacity and market share in the intra-North Europe liner trade

July 24, 2025

Container shipbuilding powerhouses: South Korea and China

July 24, 2025

Recent Post

Asia-North Europe offered weekly TEU capacity during Golden Week 2026

Golden Week capacity surge raises October schedule risks

September 24, 2026

Alphaliner chart showing the percentage of fleet capacity chartered by the top-10 ocean carriers in 2026, including MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM, COSCO, Hapag-Lloyd, ONE, Evergreen, HMM, Yang Ming and ZIM.

Top-10 carriers reduce chartered tonnage exposure as owned fleets expand

September 24, 2026

Line chart of Red Sea share of Asia–Europe container capacity by direction and total; Europe→Asia (orange) peaks near 50% in early October while Asia→Europe (blue) fluctuates around 15–25%, and total Red Sea share (gray) stays ~18–30%.

Red Sea routing normalisation reaches 27% as Suez return builds

September 17, 2026

Chart comparing August 2026 and August 2025 deployed capacity for the top-20 Intra-Asia container carriers, with Maersk leading ahead of COSCO.

Maersk overtakes COSCO to lead the Intra-Asia shipping market

September 17, 2026

Trending Posts

Asia-Europe-sailings

Asia-Europe: 27% of sailings axed in first seven weeks of 2023

January 19, 2023

Container Shipping

North Europe to North America trade is partially offsetting carrier success on other routes

November 12, 2020

top-10-carriers

MSC shows relentless growth while ZIM breaks from the pack

July 10, 2025

Global container fleet deployment by trade lane, showing year-on-year capacity growth

Container shipping capacity growth focuses on Africa and Middle East trades

December 17, 2025