MSC blanks Swan and Dragon loops ahead of Golden Week holiday
By Mike Wackett 30/08/2023
With just over a month before China’s national Golden Week holiday – after which the slack season begins in earnest – ocean carriers are belatedly ramping-up their blanking programmes.
With just over a month before China’s national Golden Week holiday – after which the slack season begins in earnest – ocean carriers are belatedly ramping-up their blanking programmes.
For example, MSC advised today that, “in line with lower demand”, it would again be suspending its standalone Asia-North Europe Swan loop, this time for six consecutive weeks, from week 37 through to week 42, in mid-October.
The carrier said it would also cancel three successive sailings of its Asia-Mediterranean Dragon service, weeks 39, 40 and 41.
Just last week, MSC announced rotation changes to the Swan schedule, which included an extra call at Felixstowe in North Europe, but also saw the removal of some Asian ports from the rotation.
