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Ocean Freight, Sep 2025: capacity up, rates down, tariffs bite

September 10, 2025

Container demand surges due to the tariff pause

June 19, 2025

Ocean freight market: rates are expected to rise in May/June

April 10, 2025

Ocean freight market: rates decline as factories being post Lunar New Year holidays

March 6, 2025

Ocean freight market update – February

February 6, 2025

Ocean freight outlook 2025

January 16, 2025

Ocean freight rates remain higher than last year

November 14, 2024

Market update: freight rates continue to be under pressure

April 4, 2024

Ocean freight update: Red Sea events continue to drive TEU spot rates

February 8, 2024

Ocean freight market update – November

November 9, 2023

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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