COVID-driven cargo demand has dramatically altered the trans-Pacific shipping landscape. New data from Alphaliner highlights just how much the Asia-U.S. trade lane has changed over the past two years.
There’s now far more container shipping capacity in the trade than pre-pandemic. Capacity keeps rising, with more new shipping services focusing on the Asia-East Coast lane than Asia-West Coast.
Carrier competition is up, with more players overall and a lower share controlled by the three giant global alliances. The trans-Pacific liner leaderboard is different as COVID-era demand trends spur new deployment strategies.
