Now that we are nearly a third of the way through the traditional container shipping peak cargo season, looking at the levels of blank sailings and capacity deployment the carriers have planned for the remainder of the third quarter, can provide us with a good perspective on the carriers’ confidence in the 2024 peak season. Figure 1 shows the percentage of blanked capacity slated for the rest of the peak season (weeks 29-39), for the two most important East/West trades: Asia-North America West Coast and Asia-North Europe. (....)