Container volumes on main routes out of Asia are dropping markedly

Falling demand means that carriers in February transported significantly fewer boxes on the main westbound routes, writes Sea-Intelligence.
Container volumes on the main routes, from Asia in particular, fell by 12.1 percent in February, according to recent figures from Sea-Intelligence. | Photo: Kua Chee Siong/ap/ritzau Scanpix
Container volumes on the main routes, from Asia in particular, fell by 12.1 percent in February, according to recent figures from Sea-Intelligence. | Photo: Kua Chee Siong/ap/ritzau Scanpix

Freighting on the main routes out of Asia was the primary driving force behind the container upswing of the pandemic, and now the very same routes are a dominant source of the market’s current decline.

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