Cancelled sailings out of India causing rollovers and bookings logjam
Source
American Shipper
Post Date
07/27/2020
Container trades out of India are faced with increasing congestion, due to a combination of blanked sailings, equipment shortages and carriers unable to clear a backlog of bookings. According to forwarding sources in the country, every carrier is facing a ¡°space crunch across India on all trade lanes and services¡±. Sources added that this was largely due to blanked sailings on almost every tradelane, container shut-outs and rollovers ¡°on every vessel¡±, an ever-lengthening list of bookings due to cancelled sailings, growing congestion at transhipment facilities ¡°due to shortage of manpower and voided vessels and limited vessel berthing windows, also due to ¡°manpower shortage and other operational issues¡±. Carriers have adopted the same strategy of blanking sailings prevalent in almost every other trade, which they say has been in response to reduced
