Shipping Trends | Global Maritime Hub - Part 13

Category: Shipping Trends

Thriving freight and charter markets drive scrap sales down

July 17, 2025

Idle fleet rises slightly but remains insignificant

July 17, 2025

Security deterioration in the Red Sea comes amid ongoing traffic adjustments through the Suez Canal

July 10, 2025

MSC shows relentless growth while ZIM breaks from the pack

July 10, 2025

CMA CGM hits 4 Mteu operated capacity

July 4, 2025

Top 10 carriers send bigger ships to West Africa and Middle East/ISC

June 26, 2025

Far East-Europe trades are on the verge of surpassing 8 Mteu in monthly capacity

June 26, 2025

MSC Cargo’s fleet exceeds 6.6 Mteu

June 26, 2025

Charter market maintains robust trajectory

June 19, 2025

Carriers assign up to 80%of their capacity to alliance fleets

June 19, 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

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