Transpacific ocean carriers are holding on to as much of their Red Sea crisis-induced gains as they can, heading into contract talks with BCOs, shippers and forwarders.

Drewry’s WCI Asia-US west coast container spot rate component was flat this week, at an average rate of $4,754 per 40ft, and remains some 140% higher than at the beginning of December.

Rates on the tradelane are being supported by strong US consumer demand, which saw import volumes at the San Pedro Bay ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach spike in January, year on year, by 19% and 23%, respectively.

Moreover, carriers have been judicious with their capacity management in and around Chinese New Year, blanking sailings and allowing other voyages to ‘slide’.

According to Simon Heaney, senior manager container research at Drewry, “it can be claimed as a success story for carriers”.

He added: “The timing of the market resurgence couldn’t have been better for lines, with the annual contracting season fast approaching.”

Indeed, carriers will be on the front foot this year at the JOC TPM conference in early March, the traditional starting point for the annual transpacific contract negotiations.

Wan Hai Lines could fill the gap in THE Alliance left by Hapag-Lloyd’s departure, according to Yang Ming’s ex-chairman Bronson Hsieh.

Last month, Hapag-Lloyd announced it would leave THE Alliance in January 2025, to form the Gemini Cooperation with Maersk and, as the largest member of the grouping the move will no doubt weaken its competitiveness.

Mr Hsieh told ETToday: “Wan Hai has a good number of 13,000 teu ships, so that could make it welcome in an alliance. If Wan Hai relaunches its ambitions of starting services to Europe, it could be invited to join THE Alliance.”

Wan Hai has started taking delivery of a series of 18 13,000 teu ships ordered during Covid and, with more than 592,000 teu of capacity, is the 11th-largest liner operator.

Originally an intra-Asia carrier, Wan Hai launched transpacific services in 2020 and, despite the correction in freight rates post-pandemic, has remained committed to the long-haul market. It has also said it was open to starting Asia-Europe services.

THE Alliance members, Yang Ming, ONE and HMM, declined to comment, although ONE has said an announcement regarding specific service structures would be made in 2025.

A Wan Hai spokesperson told: “Wan Hai doesn’t rule out various ways to improve the efficiency of slot utilisation, and alliances are only one of the possible options. At present, Wan Hai has different partners on certain routes to increase its network through joint services or slot swaps.”

But Linerlytica analyst Tan Hua Joo told The Loadstar Wan Hai’s fleet, being far smaller than the 1.9m teu of Hapag-Lloyd, would be inadequate to plug the gap left by the German operator’s departure from THE Alliance, which will be left with 2.5m teu without Hapag-Lloyd, facing Gemini’s 3.4m teu.

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The Spanish railway workers’ unions CCOO and SCF launched a 23-hour strike at midnight on 9 February. The strike is expected to affect traffic throughout the country, with 65 per cent of rail freight services not running. This results from a labour dispute with infrastructure manager Adif concerning the number of working hours per week and the elimination of income categories among employees.

This will not be the first time Spanish railways are affected by industrial action in February. Another union, UGT, has already announced a series of three two-hour-long strikes that will occur on Mondays, 12, 19, and 26 February.

Understandably, those strikes will be less impactful than a 23-hour-long strike impairing most of the freight traffic in the country. Nevertheless, if the dispute between the unions and Adif persists, one cannot exclude the possibility of further escalation, as in France last year and Germany at the beginning of 2024.

The struggle is real for European rail

Strikes are becoming an increasingly pressing issue for railway companies throughout Europe, on top of other persisting problems, including inflation, skyrocketing service prices, increased competition with road transport and unfavourable policies.

Railway operators have been struggling to maintain their market share, with companies stopping services in some cases and ringing the alarm bell for customers turning increasingly to road transport to achieve better prices and more predictability in their supply chains.

Strikes are the cake’s frosting in this sense, adding more pressure to the already strained industry that has protested against them. One such example is Rail Cargo Group, with its CEO Clemens Först commenting that GDL’s strikes in Germany are a significant setback and detour on the journey to a sustainable future, apart from killing business.

Speaking of business, another smaller freight and logistics company, Bentheimer Eisenbahn AG, reportedly lost 10 per cent of their sales in January due to the situation. France, Germany, and now Spain are examples of how disruptions can affect rail supply chains domestically and internationally. The question now is what is left to expect in 2024, which is forecasted to be a very interesting year, hopefully for the right reasons.

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