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Container shipping capacity on the Intra-Far East trade showing leading carriers and 11% year-on-year growth

Container shipping capacity reaches 21.3 million TEU as trade lanes diverge

Container freight rates on the Rotterdam–Shanghai route showing market volatility from 2025 to 2026

Container freight rates diverge as Pacific market stays tight

Cape Horn routing risks increase as Panama Canal restrictions push ships towards southern South America

Panama Canal restrictions revive Cape Horn routing risks

Shipping chokepoints ranked by share of global trade exposed and rerouting options

Shipping chokepoints pose a growing risk to global trade

China maritime strategy expanding across Indian Ocean trade routes and strategic ports

China maritime strategy expands across the Indian Ocean

China’s Maritime Silk Road linking strategic global ports across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe

China’s Maritime Silk Road and the strategic role of global ports

Maritime chokepoints showing changes in seaborne flows after Red Sea closure and higher Hormuz fees

Maritime chokepoints and the ripple effects of shipping route closures

Mediterranean shipping shaped by changing global maritime traffic and trade routes from 1999 to 2027

Mediterranean shipping in a new era of chokepoints and changing trade routes

Chart showing shares over time: blue line for 40+ transshipment-risk countries, red line for China (2000–2024). Blue declines then rises; red rises until 2018, then declines. Vertical dashed lines mark WTO entry in 2001 and Trump tariffs in 2018.

Illegal transshipment under scrutiny as US targets China-linked trade routes

European container market represented by a busy container terminal with stacked boxes and gantry cranes

European container market faces softer demand after an early peak

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