DHL Ocean Freight Market Update – February 2023

Find out the latest developments of the global ocean freight market in this monthly analysis by DHL Global Forwarding.

The discontinuation of the 2M Alliance in 2025 will most likely see a reshuffle of the carrier landscape, changing the course of business in the major East West routes.
China's re-opening is expected to introduce temporary supply chain disruption due to manpower shortage for intra-Asia trade routes. Ongoing blank sailing is balancing out demand between Asia and Europe.
Schedule reliability continues to improve, expected to return full normalization by the end of Q1 2023.

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