Topic
Shanghai
Every Vessel Hunter story on Shanghai: 10 stories, from 4 August 2026 to 20 September 2026. Newest: "Asian Port Congestion Passes Its Pandemic Peak at 4.3M TEU". Each story links to the ships and ports it names, so a name in the text opens the record behind it.
Asian Port Congestion Passes Its Pandemic Peak at 4.3M TEU
Container capacity stuck at Asian ports has reached 4.3m teu, above the pandemic peak, with Colombo turnarounds at six days and about 6.6 percent of the global fleet unavailable for normal service.
Jebel Ali Falls Out of the Top Ten as Hormuz Rewrites the Port Ranking
The ten largest container ports finished 2025 in the same order as a year earlier, but 2026 returns covering 76% of the ranked volume show one port leaving the top ten entirely.
US East Coast Box Rates Break $10,000 as Panama Cuts Daily Transits Again
The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index reached a 25-month high of 3,509.53 points, with Shanghai to US East Coast rates breaching $10,000 per FEU for the first time since 2022.
Record 4.3m TEU Waiting for a Berth as Typhoons Hit Chinese Ports Again
Global container congestion has passed the Covid-era peak, with stranded capacity equal to 12.6 percent of the world container fleet.
Seaspan Becomes First Foreign Owner to Pay P&I Calls in Renminbi
Seaspan has become the first overseas shipowner to settle protection and indemnity calls with China P&I Club in renminbi, covering two 14,000 teu newbuildings.
Ningbo-Zhoushan Overtakes Singapore as Second Busiest Box Port
Ningbo-Zhoushan has edged past Singapore to become the world's second busiest container port, growing at nearly twice the Singaporean rate in the first half.
Container Port Congestion Hits Record 4.3m Teu Waiting to Berth
Congestion has removed more than 4.3m teu of capacity from circulation, surpassing the pandemic peak in absolute terms and keeping freight and charter rates elevated.
Delays and Congestion Now Absorb 5% of Global Container Capacity
Sea-Intelligence puts the absorption rate at 5.0 percent against a 2011-2019 norm of 2.2 percent, with schedule reliability stuck at 60-65 percent.
Shanghai Sets Single-Day Container Record Of 203,881 Boxes
The port of Shanghai handled 203,881 containers in a single day on 1 August, beating its previous record by close to nine percent as it cleared a typhoon backlog.
Shanghai moves more than 200,000 teu in a single day
Shanghai has pushed its daily container throughput above 200,000 teu for the first time, handling 203,881 teu on 1 August, around 9% above the previous record of 187,312 teu set on 9 June.
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