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CMA CGM is set to blank 23 North Europe-Asia sailings from now until 2 June, after last week announcing three further deepsea sailings in the middle of this month had been cancelled, \u201cdue to recent demand slowdown in the context of the coronavirus situation\u201d.<\/p>\n
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This month alone, 15 eastbound sailings will not take place as scheduled, and the line said the cancellations were affecting its north-south services that relay cargo across Mediterranean hubs.<\/p>\n
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\u201cPlease note that these blank sailings also affect space on our Med, North Africa, East Africa, Middle East, Oceania and India subcontinent trades,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
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As a result, it has today introduced an emergency space surcharge of \u20ac50 per 20ft and \u20ac100 per 40ft for all shipments from North Europe, UK and Scandinavian ports to all Mediterranean and North African ports.<\/p>\n
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The Loadstar<\/em>\u00a0understands that the French carrier has now declared the situation as a\u00a0force majeure<\/em>, and that the strategy of blanking sailings would likely continue \u201cfor the foreseeable future, pending the return to normalcy of trade with China, Chinese production facilities and other countries impacted by the outbreak\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile, the build-up of reefer boxes in Shanghai, appears to have worsened, according to Maersk.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It has expanded its $1,000 per reefer container congestion surcharge to include the neighbouring port of Ningbo, effective immediately, for cargo brought in on non-FMC trades, with a 22 March implementation date for FMC-governed trades.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe plug shortage in Shanghai and Xingang has not improved in the latest weeks and, indeed, it has been worsening also in surrounding ports. For that reason, we will be expanding the scope of the congestion, adding also Ningbo,\u201d it said in a customer advisory.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe recommend customers, when possible, to ship to other Chinese destinations or other markets in order to avoid the congested ports. This recommendation is in particular for transit time-sensitive, perishable, chilled commodities with a limited\/short shelf-life, eg fruit\/vegetables and frozen meat,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The move comes despite a reported decision by Ningbo port to reduce its reefer tariff by 50% \u201cuntil the end of the virus\u201d.<\/p>\n gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CMA CGM is set to blank 23 North Europe-Asia sailings from now until 2 June, after last week announcing three further deepsea sailings in the middle of this month had been cancelled, \u201cdue to recent demand slowdown in the context of the coronavirus situation\u201d. This month alone, 15 eastbound sailings will not take place as …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[2168,2483,2484,2486,2482,2485,2167],"class_list":["post-5504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-blanked","tag-capacity","tag-crunch","tag-europeasia","tag-historic","tag-looms","tag-sailings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/5505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}