The impact of the US tariff war continues to have a direct impact on container shipping operations, as the number of cancelled sailings on the Transpacific trade increased drastically yet again this past week. When we look at the data, it is quite evident that the impact of the trade war has caused many shippers to pause, or outright cancel, shipments. This in turn reduces demand for capacity on container vessels, to which carriers respond by cancelling sailings. Figure 1 shows scheduled blanked capacity as a percentage of planned capacity on Asia-North America East Coast, for the weeks in the period from March 24 to May 12, as it was scheduled at different points in time, during weeks 12-16. The purple line shows the scheduled blanked share as recorded in the past week (week 16). (....)