Latest CTS figures show global volume growth at 1.3% in the first six months of 2019 against 4.5% at the halfway mark last year

With larger tonnage in demand to cover scrubber retrofits, a two-tier charter market has been created, with vessels in excess of 6,000 teu commanding increasing rates as smaller ships lose ground

Asia-Europe carriers are facing a capacity glut in the third quarter of the year, as transpacific carriers look to other trade partners to pick-up the slack of weakening China cargoes

Owners will have to withdraw transpacific capacity if proposed tariffs come into effect, leaving chartered tonnage due for expiry in 2019 heavily exposed, according to MSI analysts Daniel Richards

America’s newfound determination to trade on a level playing field has led to a reconfiguration of some marine trafic and Brazil’s soya farm industry has been one of the benefactors of the US-Sino trade spat

Transpacific box numbers for February hit by frontloading in the latter stages of last year, with volumes down more than 16%