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Ships wait 10 days to berth at Shanghai and Ningbo after Typhoon Saudel added to weeks of congestion, holding up 3.92 million TEU globally. Carriers are shifting 19% of Asia-Europe capacity back through Suez, and if the full fleet follows, global container demand could contract 8.7% in the first half of 2027 even as underlying cargo volumes grow.
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Typhoon Saudel has put rolled cargo and skipped port calls back into the China trades, and yard density in north and east Asia is tightening behind it. Cosco has committed about $3bn to 18 new container ships, which does nothing for your Q4 but plenty for 2028 rates. Brussels is briefing that the four-track talks with Beijing could move by the end of the year.
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