The path to a normalization of the containerized maritime transport market, which has experienced an exceptional stage coinciding with the world of Covid-19 pandemics, is also continuing with the return to levels prior to the global health crisis of the number of blank sailing, i.e. of the cancellations at ports decided by shipping companies to adjust supply to the demand and to cope with operational needs. Sea-Intelligence, which specialises in analyzing the evolution of this market, said that the number of blank sailing had reached its lowest point since the start of the pandemic.

"Taking the overall share of weekly departures cancelled on the Asia route west of North America, the CEO of Sea-Intelligence, Alan Murphy, we can observe that at the worst moment, not least," he said. "We cannot wait for the moment." including peaks, a departure on four was cancelled. This has undergone a clear improvement over the course of 2023 and fell below 10% in June. "However, we are seeing a new slight rise as we approach the beginning of July, which is probably a reflection of the willingness of the carriers to control the drop in spot noli," Murphy said. However, looking at the North American West Coast and the other trafficked traffics and the two traffickers Asia-Europe, we have a fundamental trend against which the trends in each market are moving more or less. identical. There are some exceptions, though, especially in the Asia Pacific market in North America. If the previous discrepancy, starting in the second half of 2021, it can be explained by the severity of the bottlenecks and the expectations of ships outside the ports of the West Coast, no explanatory model of this type fits the difference that we reap at the beginning of 2023. " If, according to Murphy, the abnormal evolution of traffics between Asia and the North American West Coast is hardly explicable, the CEO of Sea-Intelligence suggests to the forwarders operating in this market to consider the state current as of "absolute normalcy".