The crew of the 1,930 teu ASL BAUHINIA has abandoned the containership in the Red Sea on 28 January after it caught fire following an explosion on board the vessel on 27 January. The 2022 built ship is owned by Asean Seas Line and time chartered by Emirates Shipping Lines since October 2024. It is currently deployed on the Gulf Red Sea Connector (EGRC) service that connects Jebel Ali, Jeddah, Aqaba, Sokhna, Jebel Ali and had left Jebel Ali on 22 January and was scheduled to arrive at Jeddah on
Carriers will retain their current Cape of Good Hope routing in February with no immediate return planned to the Red Sea despite the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement concluded on 19 January 2025. According to Linerlytica’s survey of vessels diverted to the Cape route, the total number of ships have risen in the last 10 days driven by the busy shipping window before the Chinese New Year. If the fragile ceasefire in Gaza fails to hold, the vessel diversions affecting some 350 ships for 4.5m TEU c
Port congestion continues to hold up 8.5% of the global fleet at the end of last week, with European and Southeast Asian ports experiencing worsening delays ahead of the new alliance reshuffle that will take place in early February. Very high yard utilization is reported across all main European ports, with Rotterdam under particular scrutiny as the ECT labour dispute threatens to spiral into strikes although no confirmed dates have been announced. Although market attention has shifted to the e
The number of containership transits via the Red Sea has dropped by 70% since November 2023 when the Houthi attacks against commercial shipping started. The average number of monthly transits dropped from 606 in the first 11 months of 2023 to just 174 in 2024. When measured by total TEU capacity, the drop is even more severe at 91% as the average monthly capacity of containerships on the Red Sea has fallen from 5.9m teu last year to just 544,000 teu in 2024. Several carriers have retained their
Sidra Line has added a new East Med Red Sea (EMR) service calling at Mersin, Iskenderun, Jeddah, Port Sudan, Beirut, Lattakia, Mersin from 9 December 2024 with the 158 teu general cargo ship INFORMED. The service turns in 23 days on an irregular rolling schedule.
SeaLead has launched a new Djibouti-Red Sea-Asia Express (DRAX) service connecting Shanghai, Ningbo, Nansha, Cai Mep, Port Klang, Colombo, Djibouti, Cai Mep, Shanghai from 7 November 2024. The DRAX service will turn in 7 weeks and will deploy initially 3 ships of 3,400-4,600 teu starting with the 3,451 teu LIDIA at Shanghai on 7 November 2024 followed by the 4,636 teu ZHONG GU XI AN and ZHONG GU YIN CHUAN that will join on 23 November abd 24 November respectively. Port rotation of the new DRAX
CMA CGM has continued to send its Asia-Med ships on the Red Sea/Suez route for its services calling at Lebanon. The 16,022 teu CMA CGM JULES VERNE passed the Bab al-Mandab Strait on a northbound transit on 23 October 2024 without incident. The ship will make a stop at Jeddah and Beirut before resuming its regular Mediterranean Club Express (MEX) stops at Malta, Valencia, Barcelona and Fos before returning to Beirut for a second off-schedule call on 20 November. The ship is scheduled to make anot
Asyad Line and Folk Maritime have launched a new India-Red Sea Service (IRS) with each partner to contribute one ship each on the service from 10 September 2024. Asyad Line's 3,534 teu WADI DUKA will connect Sokhna, Jeddah, Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Salalah, Sokhna on a 30-35 day rotation, while Folk Maritime's 1,868 teu FOLK JEDDAH will connect Jeddah, Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Jeddah on a 20-25 day rotation.
The 16,022 teu CMA CGM JULES VERNE has made an eastbound Suez Canal passage on 13 August 2024 and after a stop at Jeddah, the ship passed the Bab al-Mandab Strait on 19 August without any incident. It marks the largest containership to return to the Suez/Red Sea route since February this year, with all the other main carriers still avoiding the passage to avoid attacks on vessels by Houthi militants in Yemen. The CMA CGM JULES VERNE is deployed on the Mediterranean Club Express (MEX) using 15 s
SeaLead will launch a new Far East-India-Djibouti (FID) service calling at Shanghai, Ningbo, Nansha, Port Klang, Colombo, Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Djibouti, Colombo, Shanghai from 5 September 2024. The FID service will turn in around 6 weeks, with 2 ships currently scheduled to join the service in September - the 4,636 teu ZHONG GU CHENG DU and ZHONG GU NAN CHANG.