The container industry is currently undergoing "its worst operational crisis in many years", with factors such as bottlenecks, partial port closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic and blockage of the Suez Canal sending service levels plummeting.
Hapag-Lloyd now calls for efforts to provide "full transparency" to customers about schedule reliability.
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