The coronavirus outbreak and continued closure of various manufacturing entities has taken a significant bite out of container shipping demand in Asia

Carriers’ point-to-point online tools still leave much to be desired

All but three of the major main lane service offerings have suffered from blank sailings since their inception

With roughly half of US imports from China now subject to a 25% tariff, and almost the entirety of Chinese imports from US subject to a 25% tariff, the transpacific trade is likely to be adversely affected this peak season

West coast ports won a bigger share of growth than east coast rivals in the last quarter of 2018, but were hit harder during the related slowdown in the first quarter of 2019

Liner shipping has increasingly become a size-driven industry, with the smaller carriers recording most of the losses