This week we’re providing bite-sized insights into what eeSea analysts are pulling out from under the hood of service schedules around the world - giving you an inside look at changes absent from your newsfeeds.
The MSC Chinook-Clanga, their Far East- Middle East - North America pendulum service, is showing signs of dissolution.
- Arrival delays and inconsistent port calls for the short-lived combo rotation may be behind the split. Of the 5 expected arrivals thus far, Nhava Sheva has already seen delays ranging from -5.4 to 11.9 days, one omission, and one blank sailing.
- MSC’s service schedules currently show Chinook resuming as a standalone service on the transpacific beginning in October, this will be reflected in our database shortly.
- Expansion of two Far East - Europe services, Albatros and Dragon, into RTW strings could also be at risk if reliability on these complex strings proves difficult to manage. Reliability is already a major issue for vessels calling Northern European ports.
- Recent extended coverage from eeSea, citing these services and MSC’s dominance of the US East Coast.
CSTAR Line is suspending one Far East - Europe and three Far East - Middle East services this month. The Dubai headquartered carrier with ties to both Russia and Turkey appears to be downsizing.
- The FRS1, and FRS1-X extraloader service suspended in the first week of August, and the FRS2 and the Far East - Europe IMB1 string will cease operations next week.
- The carrier continues participation in two other Far East - Europe strings, the ICX and FEM1, as well as the Colombo - India and CWX2 partnerships serving the Middle East.
- Excepting the five feeders it continues to operate, this marks the end of their offerings into the Russian market as well as any standalone service on a major trade.
- Here is some relevant coverage on the recent downturn of Russian freight, including commentary from Xeneta’s Peter Sand.
Hong Kong based Hede Shipping is one of the smaller carriers that rode the frontloading capacity wave ahead of the Trump administration’s initial tariff deadlines earlier this summer.
- Schedules reveal strong suggestions of an imminent suspension on the HDS2 service, with three out of five slots taken over by blank sailings since the beginning of August.
- The HDS2 and HDS3 services are recent additions to what was the single offering of the HDS on the transpacific. These three services also comprise the only major trade services available from Hede, supported by two feeders and a single intraregional.
- The HDS3 was the most recent introduction, commencing in June, and currently boasts the largest average vessel size for this operator with 3.5K TEUs.
- Some earlier coverage from eeSea, citing this service and explaining how some small carriers could pay the price for tariff hikes.
eeSea Signals
- All MSC Services
- All CSTAR Lines Services
- All Hede Shipping Services
- Services by Trade, Port, VSA, and Capacity - Tableau Permission Required
- Service Capacity Evolution by Month, VSA - Tableau Permission Required
- Services Calling Russian Ports by Capacity, VSA, Trade - Tableau Permission Required